“Failure of the state to take appropriate action to protect the climate system from GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions including through fossil fuel production, fossil fuel consumption, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licenses, or the provision of fossil fuel subsidies may constitute an internationally wrongful act which is attributable to that state,” the court wrote in its unanimous decision.
Given our dollar tracks the price of oil I’d say that then makes up screwed. I hope the poor didn’t need anything from the government.
Or we could do everything in our power to divorce our economy from oil rather than clinging desperately to a doomed business model.
Even the Saudis were smart enough to diversify their economy.