It’s so terrible, why wouldn’t the court listen to this esteemed scientist?
Sweden’s top court rejects Greta Thunberg lawsuit on climate action
Sweden’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other activists cannot proceed with a class action lawsuit that had sought to force the state to take stronger action against climate change.
Activists filed a lawsuit in 2022 arguing that the state violates the European Convention on Human Rights by not doing enough to limit climate change, or mitigate its effects, and the case has since been subject to review on procedural grounds.
The group of 300 plaintiffs in the case, who call themselves the Aurora group, wanted the courts to order Sweden to do more to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).
“A court cannot decide that parliament or the government should take any specific action without the democratic bodies deciding independently on those issues,” Supreme Court Justice Jonas Malmberg told Reuters.
But the court did not rule out that a climate lawsuit formulated differently could be heard in Sweden, as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has said groups meeting certain requirements may have the right to sue over climate change.
In other words, the court decided that democratically elected lawmakers have the primary responsibility for instituting any scam legislation, that it is not up to courts to unilaterally implement cult Beliefs. Too bad they didn’t ask the 300 plaintiffs if they had given up their own use of fossil fuels, stopped eating meat, and made their own lives carbon neutral.
The Aurora group said it would review its legal options.
“We will continue to desperately try to prevent planetary collapses and get Sweden to do their legal duty to respect human rights and stop making the planetary crisis worse,” Aurora’s legal and scientific coordinator Ida Edling told Reuters.
What about their own duty to practice what they preach? Seriously, would the court implement the beliefs of other cults, forcing citizens to practice, say, Scientology? Of course not. At least Scientology and other cults tend to mind their own business, rather than attempting to force everyone to believe the same.
I may have posted this before…
One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. “What’s this?” she asked.
“Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
“What happened to the carpet?” she asked.
“The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.
Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
“Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”
“Where’s the water?” asked Greta.
“Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, ‘Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it”
“Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
“Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?” There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
“What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.
“Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.”
“How so, raw?” inquired Greta.
“Well, . . .” And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
“But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta.
“Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.”
“What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”
“Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing – being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”
This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.
Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized.
A NEW LOW! Quinnipac Poll puts Congressional Democrat approval at 22% (and -46 UNDERWATER)
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-new-low-quinnipac-poll-puts.html
How DARE they!
I have been discussing this for quite some time. It is why I consider the AGW crowd EnviroNAZIs.
You can bet that the elites will have penthouses, penicillin, and toothbrushes. The rest of us will live in high rises until they collapse from the lack of materials to keep them in good repair.
Home ownership will become untenable. Burning wood to keep warm will get you 10 years in prison. This will cause the entirety of the USA to flock south to warmer latitudes to keep from freezing to death.
The elites will sell Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, ND, SD, UTAH, etc., to China in exchange for them bartering us food, which of course they will not do once they have the land. They will move millions and millions of their citizens to these states and fire up the electricity and mining as they rule the world.
In the meantime the rest of the world will perish. Literally die of starvation, disease and depression.
Thanks GRETA for truly bringing us 1984. I am sure its your favorite book. The world owes you a debt of gratitude. As the professor says. “HOW DARE THEY.”