These children who filed the complaint, some of whom are as young as eight, are demanding that the U.N. issue a mandate requiring all members states to “take action” in order to protect children like themselves from experiencing the “devastating” impacts of climate change.
Filed through the Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child – because eight-year-olds are well-versed in taking the proper steps, didn’t you know? – the complaint represents a direct appeal to the U.N. to basically come up with a remedy against nations that have ratified this protocol, but that are in violation of it.
“Change needs to happen now if we are to avoid the worst consequences,” declared Greta the hysterical climate teen, appearing for one of her many prepared press conferences. “The climate crisis is not just the weather. It means also, lack of food and lack of water, places that are unlivable and refugees because of it. It is scary.”...read more>>>...
