I'm struggling to see why this is a "Prominent Climate Lawyer" - this case is about pollution, not climate. Not that I'm defending the fossil fuel industry. They've always played dirty with cleaning up their messes (see also the mining industry, who use the same dirty tactics). I get that there's a connection because Big Oil. And Climate Justice, kinda. But this is a pollution lawsuit. The danger is that if we only o…
When you use the word "pollution" what is that is being polluted. It's the climate and one of it's components. So it's totally reasonable to be both. This is pretty insane mental gymnastics to say that a lawyer working on things related to pollution is not working on things related to the climate.
It is pretty insane mental gymnastics to say that everything related to pollution is also related to climate change. These are two separate Environmental concerns.