droughts; and Canadian kids have a human right not to be driven from their homes by those same fires.

The same goes for kids on the Gulf Coast who face ever stronger hurricanes and kids and adults around the world whose lives are threatened by rising oceans, years-long droughts, and flooding.

The Montana youngsters aren’t the only children who have decided they can’t afford to wait for adults in government and corporations to protect their human right to a healthy environment.

A group of 14 youngsters in Hawaii filed a climate lawsuit against the Hawaiian Department of Transportation in June of 2022. The youngsters claim their state DOT’s active operation of a transportation system which results in high levels of greenhouse gas emissions is causing significant harm to their communities, violates their constitutional rights, and undermines their ability to live healthful lives in Hawaii — now and into the future.

Justice moves slowly and the Hawaiian case is moving through the courts.

Meanwhile, on June 1, a federal children’s climate lawsuit — known as Juliana v. the United States — was given the green light to head to trial in federal court in Oregon.

Just like the Montana State government, the U.S. government has fought the Juliana case for years. But the kids are right and they aren’t giving up. The adults just need to pay attention and listen to what they have to say.

These young people are seeking a judicial declaration that Montana, Hawaii, and the U.S. fossil fuel energy systems are unconstitutional and violate their fundamental right to a safe climate. A victory in either of these cases would mean states/federal climate and energy policies would need to adhere to the court’s decision. Those governments would have to enact policies protecting the rights of our nation’s children and ending the physical and mental harm they have experienced at the hands of those very governments.

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