They won’t give up their own use of fossil fuels and carbon footprints, they just want you to be forced by Government to give up yours, and they’re shamefully using children
(AP) Environmental activists are suing Washington state, the latest state-level effort to boost use of renewable energy.
Thirteen children backed by the non-profit Our Children’s Trust filed a lawsuit on Friday in King County Superior Court to force the state to end its reliance on fossil fuels. The only way to do so would be for the state to move toward producing all of its energy through renewable means by 2050, Andrea Rodgers, one of the lawyers that filed the case, said in an interview. (snip)
“We appreciate the governor’s work; but while words are important, they’re not everything,” Rodgers said. “The emissions in Washington are still substantial. We still have transportation and energy systems that are dependent on fossil fuels. We need a complete transformation.”
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit are children that range in age from 7 to 17.
Wouldn’t it be funny if they won and the judge ruled that the state of Washington may no longer use fossil fuels for operations? All those state owned cars and trucks and boats that could no longer be used, etc and so forth. The state would have to spend an enormous amount of money to replace all that. Guess who pays? Those children that range in age from 7 to 17. Who would probably leave the state because their taxes and cost of living skyrocketed. Which is what would happen anyhow if they win their lawsuit.
It seeks to make the state establish a plan to “stabilize the climate system and protect the vital natural resources on which plaintiffs and future generations will depend.” It also charges that an existing law that obligates the state to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020 to 1990 levels, and by 2050 to 50 percent below 1990 levels or 70 percent below the state’s projected emissions that year, still permits “dangerous” levels of those gasses.
They’re fighting to raise their power costs, food costs, clothing costs, home costs, and so forth. And to make everyone else Comply.
IIRC Olympia had a scandal a few years ago because no one was driving the damn electric only cars that the State forced the State Departments to buy, 3 year old volts with like 800 miles on them.
Also on the IIRC side, I thought that WaSt got almost all of its power from renewable, mostly hydro, but some nuke, so what are they really bitching about now?