tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705462730914460094.post1582345223794452122..comments2024-03-28T11:43:23.896+00:00Comments on All Dishevelled Wandering Stars: Beyond the rhetoric - is Climate Inaction a Crime against humanity?The Old Man is backhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06299949591915788184noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705462730914460094.post-51634193122902360712014-09-26T17:06:57.119+01:002014-09-26T17:06:57.119+01:00Relevant as usual, Leif. I am hoping that some kin...Relevant as usual, Leif. I am hoping that some kind of precedent can be set in a court beyond the influence of corporate or high-end legal interference. If it can be established that a failure to act to reduce emissions is a crime of omission or nonfeasance, then corporates can be effectively prosecuted both to compensate for their contribution and for any overt attempt to defer action in themselves or others. It is not inconceivable that the Koch clan could be declared hostes humani generis, then they would have to answer for crimes against humanity.The Old Man is backhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06299949591915788184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705462730914460094.post-25786181505050743522014-09-26T17:01:27.359+01:002014-09-26T17:01:27.359+01:00The largest moral discrepancy in the law that I se...The largest moral discrepancy in the law that I see currently happening, off the radar of most, is the the ability of the rich to profit from the pollution of the commons while you and I are severely fined, $1,000 in AK, for throwing a paper cup out the car window. The president himself would be hounded out of office if caught on camera. Yet the richest people in the world continue to profit from the pollution of the commons . This fundamental flaw has bequeathed a legacy of polluted land, waters, air, oceans, even now the bowels of the planet itself. Worse yet, this effort still gets the funding subsidies of your and my tax $$$. "We the People" all pay to dispose of trash, $144/ton in my area, yet Corpro/People demand a bulk rate of free+$$$ for toxins! They piddle all over themselves at the thought of $25/ton even as you and I are holding the bag for far more. This "oversight" has become intrenched into the fabric of both political parties. It is the foundation of Western Capitalism. As humanity awakens to the dawn of the Anthropocene era we begin to see the dark clouds of the melting Polar ice, acidified oceans, species extinction, floods, drought and famine. We see climatic refugees fleeing and dying in the attempt to save the lives of themselves and their progeny from the winds of Mordor. The ability of the few to profit from the pollution of the commons.<br /><br />Corporations are "people" now in the USA. As such they now have a fiduciary responsibility to Planetary Life Support Systems, as do we all. Treat them as the "People" they lobbied to become. Leifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09610156568686353981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4705462730914460094.post-51895579141779066592014-09-26T15:44:03.250+01:002014-09-26T15:44:03.250+01:00Here's some more inducement from our moral vic...Here's some more inducement from our moral victims:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJuRjy9k7GA<br /><br />Found here, among some good tweets:<br />www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/09/23/kathy_jetnil_kijiner_solastalgia_marshall_islander_s_poem_moves_u_n_climate.htmlSusan Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16935228911713362040noreply@blogger.com