no allied lowers as well as he is the
founder of the I matter campaign
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Alex Walker r-ala excuse me welcome back
to the program
out thank you so much it's good to be
back so
I the last time you were with us tonight
don't recall if you were here on radio
or on TV
you were telling us a gate correct me if
I'm wrong on this may be an even this
remember but I
you were telling us about a L a lawsuit
on behalf %uh
the youth the world about global warming
well yeah
a basically it's out at this point it's
on behalf of the
the US use I'll pretty much just
standing up for our
clad saying that we we don't want be to
the government to keep
allowing the fossil fuel industry to
take advantage ok are
future of our basically the planet we
depend on price
ok because they actually have a legal
obligation to protect
natural resources for future generations
under a the public trust doctrine
Commons law is really well-founded
a legal doctrines they being who in the
US government
every sovereign study I'll I was I was
going to ask so somebody has to
to agree to you base created to some
extent protects navigable waters
a land person and it has this under
under
united nations agree matter is this
where do we find no I'm of
completely clear about the actually
already have it
all I know is that yet basically the
public trust doctrine states that we
have to keep these resources are calling
for
generations that this guy was
beneficiaries of this mistrust
right and weeee as young people out the
younger generation are basically
standing on behalf of those
a futures stakeholders a
me the ones will basically have to
inherit the climate that we
we create over the course of our
generation's lifetimes and
basically if you're awake the way that
we either way that our system is
structured right now doesn't allow for
people to be
connect with each other to be connected
for a way with with major
it leads to you problems from climate
change to its award to poverty really
think that they're they're all symptoms
at the same
sickness in the way that we did we think
and I really feel like
attacking it or not
attacking the trying to heal the
sickness comes down to
taking action in all the levels a
basically society that we can from our
own personal relationships to use the
schools to institutions to ultimately
booked
the government and over the course of my
workout I was
down but I've begun to
consider the the possibility that the
legal
world is is basically the way into use
these
really bureaucratic governmental systems
a
so that's what we're trying to do a
we're working with a group of folks
really good lawyers who
I have been working on this this legal
doctrine called I missed your trust
litigation
ira basically asking that the US
government develop a plan
to reduce carbon emissions 6 percent per
year
beginning now basically which is what
the sign says it needs to happen if we
aren't you
avoid disaster yeah avoid disaster is
great
you know and and who who is the litigant
a unit was filing
yeah unhook yeah basically I am
or other young people other be are the
the plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit we
also have Kate cases were filed in all
50 states
a a couple years ago Malik to wanna hear
those towers doctors
a but for the most part this the
the federal case has gone through a lot
ok ups and downs over the past couple
years it was
a after your deliberation
the sawyer are initial hearing
the case was dismissed I am
but was over basis uva lack of standing
or a lack of
specific case law that was being violent
what was the biggest
the dismissal well it was I mean via
the manufacture and trucking industries
actually intervened in the case
talked about us largely and and the
pretty much sense a team rosso
really good lawyers just 22 find any
Lupo they could
our argument and basically just resort
to
legal couples about who has the
jurisdiction for this or what their
rights are going to sort out and
it basically just the moral issue wasn't
allowed to be made at all
and doctor James Hansen or the world's
top climate scientists was ready to you
to testify at the hearing of this crime
so that the court will allow the
the climate change point to be made at
all basically just saw
resorted to just picking apart delaying
reserve
the you know there you go at things
gotten better since then
they have we we filed the motion the
to worry me we filed an appeal 'em
and dot has taken it so this week to be
heard
I'm but in which in which court
in the %uh the Court of Appeals in
Washington DC produces
the DC Circuit Court de Cris Carter yeah
and its from
the we were supposed to have a or
argument last Friday for last week
sometime but I was
cancel a for some reason they
they basically just in d1 a
good constituents in this case the young
people who are ready to come to the
court
basically show their faces to your
you know what's going to happen concerts
so the judges deliberated on their own
in private on Friday we just based on
based on from the court briefs
pretty much based on all the various
documents that but we
a BIOS there's round advocate amicus
curiae briefs
burnt sometimes as filed with a
they're going to I mean the there's a
lot of
documents that have been sure but it
basically just coat colour there are
joints rolled out right make decisions
over
currently in the process so just sorta
waiting for about 2
to come in I am but I E personally if
you're also
a there's there's honestly no way to to
be able to tell others point what the
outcome will be
any state courts ruled in your favor
um a couple of them have
made it pretty far in the process at
this point but the problem is that the
the entire process is so slow that it's
hard to get
any sort of outcome quickly up and
buttercup love love the courts did
up I think your escape just froze
yeah we just we just lost the signal
this is the
one of the problems with it this
wonderful new technology
ice baths okay your back %uh did it
dole out yeah I'd froze up there for a
minute so I was askin state court
sending any success we have about a half
a minute left
okay I mean for for the most part a most
of them were
were dismissed just gonna stand on the
press the
weeee didn't have are just I'm not
completely sure about
why there are dismissed but yeah a
the federal cases still alive and Wii
the important thing
to chill really important point to make
is that we're gonna continue
fight it no matter what happens there
you go
okay are allied lowers easy founder the
I matter campaign
the website I'm at a youth dot or the
letter I
matter you dartboard and Alex
for allocating thank you for drop by
I'll
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