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.
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