In the same week large swaths of the US were under extreme heat warnings, Joe Biden’s Justice Department filed its most recent motion to dismiss a landmark climate case by arguing that nothing in the Constitution guarantees the right to a secure climate.
Many of my countrymen seem to think if it’s not a problem written down on some dusty old piece of paper, at least 1-2 centuries old, it isn’t a problem now.
Why does it need to be in the US constitution for it to matter?
Something that isn’t in the constitution is, by definition, not a constitutional right.
Many of my countrymen seem to think if it’s not a problem written down on some dusty old piece of paper, at least 1-2 centuries old, it isn’t a problem now.