tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144103746452920529.post5862775354236006697..comments2024-01-10T11:04:09.177-08:00Comments on Carbon-Based: Things to watch for in PoznanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6144103746452920529.post-51684304146613222042008-11-30T17:38:00.000-08:002008-11-30T17:38:00.000-08:00vPRESS RELEASEfor immediate release: December 1, 2...vPRESS RELEASE<BR/>for immediate release: December 1, 2008<BR/>contact: Dan Bloom: danbloom@gmail.com<BR/><BR/>Lawsuit against world leaders for $1 billion for global warming impact<BR/>on future?<BR/><BR/><BR/>Tags: Environment, climate treaty, crimes against humanity, global<BR/>warming, greenhouse emissions, international criminal court<BR/><BR/>In a global publicity stunt, a U.S. environmental activist is poised<BR/>to lodge a US$1 billion damages class action lawsuit at the<BR/>International Criminal Court (ICC) against all world leaders for<BR/>failing to prevent global warming.<BR/><BR/>Climate ctivist and blogger Dan Bloom, 60, a graduate of Tufts<BR/>University in 1971, says he will sue world leaders for "intent to<BR/>commit manslaughter against future generations of human beings by<BR/>allowing murderous amounts of fossil fuels to be harvested, burned and<BR/>sent into the atmosphere as CO2″.<BR/><BR/>He intends to lodge the lawsuit on Dec. 6 at the ICC in the Hague.<BR/><BR/>The prosecutor's office at the ICC, the world's first permanent court<BR/>(pictured below right) for war crimes, genocide and crimes against<BR/>humanity, says it is allowed to receive information on crimes that may<BR/>fall within the court's jurisdiction from any source.<BR/><BR/>"Such information does not per se trigger a judicial proceeding," the<BR/>prosecutor's office hastened to add.<BR/><BR/>The question for media analysts and reporters is: will or should the<BR/>prosecutor take on the case?<BR/><BR/>One might argue in defense that world leaders are in fact trying to<BR/>impose climate-saving measures. In Vienna last year, almost all rich<BR/>nations agreed to consider cuts in greenhouse emissions of 25-40<BR/>percent below 1990 levels by 2020. Talks on a new climate treaty will<BR/>be held in Poznan, Poland, from Dec. 1-12.<BR/><BR/>Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N. Climate Panel, says the cuts are<BR/>needed to limit temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius, an amount<BR/>seen by the EU, some other nations and many environmentalists as a<BR/>threshold for "dangerous" climate change.<BR/><BR/>Granted then that there is growing consensus that climate change poses<BR/>a real threat, is it not only world leaders who are failing to prevent<BR/>global warming?<BR/><BR/>Perhaps the global collective of individuals, governments and industry<BR/>is to blame and the ICC lawsuit a valid publicity stunt in the<BR/>constant battle to raise awareness and prompt action?<BR/><BR/>Because it's action we need ― and now, right?DANIELBLOOMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130493903696077379noreply@blogger.com