"The populist parties are also failing to address it in that they are not offering long-term solutions. But they’re much more successful at exploiting it for electoral support.”

Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.

"The ICJ ruling makes clear the obligation of rich global north states to rapidly phase out fossil fuels to avert further loss and damage, and to provide financial and technical support to global south states for adaptation to minimise harm and respond to the irreversible loss and damage."

"and that a state’s failure to regulate these greenhouse gas emissions and emitters constitutes an internationally wrongful act susceptible to legal consequences."

"The duty extends to an obligation to regulate private businesses responsible for emissions and other significant harms to the climate system operating within their borders,"

"the ICJ provided the boldest-ever language on fossil fuels, specifically spelling out the legal obligation by states to exercise “due diligence” in ending extraction, consumption, licences and subsidies – due to the mountain of unequivocal evidence on the harms caused to all life"

Hernández, the Puerto Rican left fielder ....“I may not be [an Angeleno] born and raised,” he wrote, “but … I cannot stand to see our community being violated, profiled, abused and ripped apart.”