{"id":218916207,"date":"2011-12-09T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T18:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=218916207"},"modified":"2011-12-09T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T18:03:27","slug":"kids-sue-government-over-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=218916207","title":{"rendered":"Kids sue government over climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY CLAIRE THOMPSON &#8211; Grist<br \/>\nAs the U.S. delegation drags its feet at the climate talks in Durban, South Africa, this week, a pack of kids back home is trying to force the old folks into action, the American way: They&#8217;re suing the bastards.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&quot;The generations before us &#8230; just kind of thought of the world as limitless,&quot; said Glori Dei Filippone, 13, a plaintiff in the case who hails from Des Moines, Iowa. &quot;My generation and the one after it are going to have to work hard to fix this mess.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe lawsuits are based on a legal theory developed by University of Oregon law professor Mary Wood called &quot;atmospheric trust litigation.&quot; The theory &quot;rests on the premise that all governments hold natural resources in trust for their citizens and bear the fiduciary obligation to protect such resources for future generations,&quot; according to Wood&#8217;s web page.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grist.org\/climate-change\/2011-12-08-the-young-and-the-restless-kids-sue-government-over-climate-chan\">https:\/\/www.grist.org\/climate-change\/2011-12-08-the-young-and-the-restless-kids-sue-government-over-climate-chan<\/a>oldId.20111209180327662<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY CLAIRE THOMPSON &#8211; Grist As the U.S. delegation drags its feet at the climate talks in Durban, South Africa, this week, a pack of kids back home is trying to force the old folks into action, the American way: They&#8217;re suing the bastards. &#8230; &quot;The generations before us &#8230; just kind of thought of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=218916207\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kids sue government over climate change&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218916207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218916207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218916207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218916207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218916207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218916207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218916207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}