Young climate change activists tell Congress that their lives are at risk unless the U.S. government takes bold steps to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Piper is one of 21 plaintiffs in Juliana vs. U.S., a lawsuit that claims that, if the U.S. government fails to protect the, members of his generation could be denied their constitutional rights to life, liberty and property. The lawsuit, filed in 2015, has seen many delays but is set for a hearing before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Earlier this year, 30,000 young people signed onto a legal brief asking the appeals court to move the case forward.
The power of the court, Piper said, is the ability to "disregard the disbelief and recognize the science." The top Republican on the panel, Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana, said he agreed with an “obligation to be good stewards of this planet and to protect our environment” but also focused on the economic trade-offs.
State and local governments should seek solutions, Miller said, and asked one of the young witnesses before the committee, a recent college graduate who now works in the governor's office in Louisiana, what she'd learned from working on local projects. "I think developing those partnerships and learning to work in a compromising manner is really the only way that we can provide long-term solutions to this problem," Cooper said.
“Our communities have not moved to the gulf for water front views. The gulf has moved to us,” she said. “We have already lost 2000 square-miles of wetlands since the 1930s. As a Louisianan, I understand climate change. It’s something we deal with every day.”
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