South Korea: Babies, Fetus Sue Government for Not Fighting Against Warm Weather

The US is trying to start a war with China, which would lead to a total obliteration of South Korea, and they’re talking about the weather conspiracy.

This is sick.

Check your priorities list!

The Guardian:

A 20-week-old foetus is fronting a legal challenge in South Korea that argues the state is breaching the rights of future generations by not doing enough to cut national emissions.

Parents and lawyers representing the foetus, as well as 61 babies and children under 11, claim national carbon targets do not go far enough to stop runaway climate change and that this is unconstitutional.

Lee Dong-Hyun, who is pregnant with the foetus nicknamed Woodpecker and is also the mother of a six-year-old claimant, said: “I am proud every time a 20-week-old foetus moves in my belly, but I feel sorry and regretful that this child who has not emitted even a gram of carbon dioxide has to live with the current climate crisis and disaster.”

The case was inspired by a landmark 2019 lawsuit in the Netherlands, where campaigners succeeded in ordering the government to reduce emissions. It sparked a wave of climate litigation around the world, from Ireland to India.

Korean citizens have been active in bringing climate lawsuits against the state, with three cases challenging the constitutionality of the country’s climate commitments awaiting a hearing. One claim, brought by a youth group, was updated in 2021 after the South Korean government passed a new net zero law that they argued was still not strong enough.

In this latest case, the claimants say the country’s 2030 target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40% is unconstitutional and cannot guarantee basic rights for future generations. These include the rights to life, equality, property, and to live in a healthy and pleasant environment.

Climate impacts in Korea are growing rapidly. Government statistics show the damage from natural disasters has risen since 1985, resulting in 162 casualties and costing 7.3tn won (£4.6bn) between 2007 and 2016. According to reports, the country will in future face more frequent and heavy floods and forest disasters, loss of habitats and endangered species, and lower yields and quality of staple foods such as rice.

“Adults say they will protect the Earth for us, but it doesn’t seem to have much to do with our future,” said a 10-year-old claimant, Han Je-ah. “Instead of passing it on to children, adults need to cut carbon emissions a lot more right now.”

However, a foetus has never before been listed as a claimant.

Kim Young-hee, the president of an anti-nuclear lawyers’ collective, Sunflower, who is leading the new case, told the Guardian: “The youngest foetus was designated as the representative claimant … because the foetus is the most important symbol alive for future generations.”

Well, that’s just retarded.