“Criminal” Climate Crisis – Earth Day 2022

We may be able to see how the Supreme Court rules on future abdications of leadership for our protection by Earth Day 2022.

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The publication of the most recent climate crisis study was reported by the NY Times on February 28, 2022. “Written by 270 researchers from 67 countries, the report is ‘an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership,’ said António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general. ‘With fact upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet are getting clobbered by climate change.’”

“’Unchecked carbon pollution is forcing the world’s most vulnerable on a frog march to destruction — now,’ Mr. Guterres said. ‘This abdication of leadership is criminal.’”¹

Fire: Public domain photo by Magaret Lamers, courtesy Pixy.org. CC0. Flood: Three cars are submerged in flood waters. Image by Chris Gallagher, via Unsplash.com. Jay W. Belle Isle designed the overall design. In 1966, I moved to Washington to work in air pollution control. It was painfully difficult to learn about the powerful corporate influence on policy.³

Tragically, corporate control became more dominant over policy over the next five decades.⁴

We may be able to see how the Supreme Court rules on future abdications of leadership for our protection by Earth Day 2022.  Will the Supreme Court continue to fail us all?

References (Live links to documents):

1. U.N. Climate Change Is Harming Our Planet Faster Than We Can Adapt Warns
2. Supreme Court Considers Limiting E.P.A.’s Ability to Address Climate Change
3. Right v. Wrong: True Story on Air Pollution, Science & the Law
4. 50 Years of “Legal” Climate Change