An international court in France on Tuesday ruled Switzerland’s failure to adequately tackle the climate crisis was in violation of human rights, in a landmark climate judgment that could have a ripple effect across the globe.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France delivered its ruling in a case brought by more than 2,000 Swiss women, the majority of whom are in their 70s, against Switzerland’s government. They argued that climate change-fueled heat waves undermined their health and quality of life, and put them at risk of dying.
The court ruled that the Swiss government had violated some of the women’s human rights due to “critical gaps” in its national legislation to reduce planet-heating emissions, as well as a failure to meet past climate targets.
If there’s one thing the boomers have always successfully managed, its leveraging their demographic overweight to their benefit.
Quite often that benefited following generations too, only when they got older they got more into the conservative ‘fuck you, got mine’ mindset.
However they show here that they can be quite irreverent and ideological too, like they used to be.
It’s almost like there’s no such thing as “the boomers” that all share the same characteristics based on their age group, but rather that they are a highly diverse and ideologically varied group of people like any other.
Well the one thing that unifies them is said demographical overweight.
And if they were a single ideologically aligned block that would mean something.
It’s time to give up the idiotic ageist boomer hate and focus on the real enemy: large capital.