This week, an Australian court has ruled that the government has a legal duty of care to protect children from climate change. The ruling was based on a case brought by a group of teenagers, demonstrating that climate change is high on the agenda of young people today. Young people will not sit back, they are demanding action and sustainability.
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“Perhaps the most startling of the potential harms demonstrated by the evidence before the court, is that one million of today’s Australian children are expected to suffer at least one heat-stress episode serious enough to require acute care in a hospital,” he said. “Many thousands will suffer premature death from heat stress or bushfire smoke. Substantial economic loss and property damage will be experienced. The Great Barrier Reef and most of Australia’s eastern eucalypt forests will no longer exist due to repeated, severe bushfires.”
