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Hey, if you cannot convince Other People to live the climate cult life (even though you, as a Warmist, refuse to voluntarily do so), to get legislation passed, then get the courts to do so

Court Orders South Korea to Take Stronger Action on Climate Change

A top South Korean court on Thursday ruled the nation’s measures for fighting climate change insufficient for protecting the rights of citizens, and ordered the government to set firm carbon-reduction targets for 2031 and beyond. It is the first climate litigation ruling of its kind in Asia.

Since 2020, the Constitutional Court has been reviewing a series of complaints filed by more than 250 plaintiffs — one-third of them children or teenagers at the time of the filing — who said that the government’s greenhouse gas reduction targets and its implementation plans were partly unconstitutional and too weak to safeguard the rights of citizens, particularly those of future generations.

South Korea’s Carbon Neutral Act, first enacted in 2010, required the country to set a goal of cutting carbon emissions by at least 35 percent by 2030 compared with 2018 levels. Under the law, the government has set a goal of a 40 percent reduction. The plaintiffs argued that this was not enough to manage the impact of climate change.

In its decision on Thursday, the Constitutional Court did not find fault with the 2030 goal. But it declared that because the law failed to specify carbon-emission reduction targets for the years between 2031 and 2050 — when the country said it would achieve carbon neutrality — the constitutional rights of future generations had been violated.

Too bad the court didn’t rule that all these youts would be required to practice what they preach: no fossil fueled travel, their use of the Internet would be limited to 1GB a month because it uses huge amounts of energy, no AC or heat, and they cannot eat meat. I wonder how many of nine judges that sit on the Constitutional Court own fossil fueled vehicles and take fossil fueled flights.

The court gave the National Assembly until the end of February 2025 to revise the law.

“Future generations will be more exposed to the impact of climate change, but their participation in today’s democratic political process is limited,” the court said. “So the legislators have the duty and responsibility to make concrete laws for mid- and long-term greenhouse gas reduction plans.”

That’s weird: the Court telling the legislative branch to change the law. But, hey, maybe that’s South Korea’s way.

The plaintiffs and their lawyers hailed the verdict as “historic.”

“This ruling marks the first victory in climate litigation in Asia,” they said in a news release. “The ruling could serve as a critical turning point, inspiring further legal actions across Asia to challenge insufficient climate policies.”

I wonder if the kiddies realize that this will negatively affect their lives? Well, they asked for it, so, no complaining.