Climate Activists Are Waging a New Kind of Legal Fight

Photo caption: The rapidly developing field of attribution science is giving climate activists an incredibly valuable tool: the ability to argue that climate change is causing specific damages […]. Photo credit: Dudarev Mikhail / Shutterstock. Article by Isabella Kaminski. Hakai Magazine – October 25, 2022.

In the face of bigger wildfires, deadlier floods, and more extreme weather, plaintiffs around the world are taking up a new tactic: suing for the damage climate change has already wrought.

Fifteen-year-old Brianna K. (known as Kū) loves listening to her family tell stories about the wildlife they grew up with along the shores of west Maui, Hawaiʻi. The stories describe diverse, vital ecosystems. They tell of things that have been lost. […]

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