Rapacious lawyers discover climate change, and you know the results can't be good:
From being a marginal and even mocked issue, climate-change litigation is fast emerging as a new frontier of law where some believe hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake.
Compensation for losses inflicted by man-made global warming would be jaw-dropping, a payout that would make tobacco and asbestos damages look like pocket money.
Imagine: a country or an individual could get redress for a drought that destroyed farmland, for floods and storms that created an army of refugees, for rising seas that wiped a small island state off the map.
In the past three years, the number of climate-related lawsuits has ballooned, filling the void of political efforts in tackling greenhouse-gas emissions.
Eyeing the money-spinning potential, some major commercial law firms now place climate-change litigation in their Internet shop window.
I guess climate change is dangerous after all. With these vultures coming at us from one direction, and the EPA from another, we will soon have no economy left.
Comments
Shakespeare was right.
What, when Hamlet, head in his girlfriend's lap, said "My mind is on country matters."?
I agree. If you don't get it (and I know you don't), try saying it out loud.
BTW, I doubt that you ever read anything by Shakespeare that wasn't assigned by a high school teacher. Even then, I bet you read the Cliffs Notes.
Littlejohn, I was referring to the memorable quote of Dick the butcher in Shakespeare's Henry VI "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
FYI, I couldn't squeak by on just the Cliff's notes, I had my own mother as a teacher (masters in english) for advanced english classes 3 different times while at Snider. Suffice to say, she made sure I read everything in toto.
Tim, I withdraw my criticism. My mother, unlike yours apparenrtly, was an idiot.
My father was a genius - a two-time first runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. I think he married my mom for her looks. She looked like a fashion model. But like most women born in the early 1920s, she was considered unattractive because she was nearly six feet tall. My father, like me, was plain-looking, but at six-foot-three, he wasn't bothered by her height.
I envy you. Although I managed a good education from an exclusive school, my parents never taught me anything.
And Shakespeare, as usual, was right. Kill the lawyers. It's nice when we can agree. Cheers.