Netherlands court action on climate change means "this is what we did"

H

ow many of us wonder what will say in answer to our children’s questions about when we knew about climate change and what did we do about it?

Kelly Rigg - this is
what  we can say.

A story from the Huffington Post blog wonders, “Since the days of Watergate, the question "What did he know, and when did he know it?" has been a key litmus test for assessing guilt and innocence. Forty years later that question is now being asked in relation to climate change.”

Writing in the blog, Kelly Rigg says, “Where I live, in the Netherlands, a landmark case will be heard in the Den Haag District Court on Tuesday. The Urgenda Foundation is suing the Dutch government for knowingly endangering its citizens by failing to prevent dangerous climate change.”

Pointing to the many actions of Urgenda Foundation, Kelly writes, “That way, when our children ask what we knew and when we knew it, we can also tell them what we did about it.”

Read Kelly’s story here: “Landmark Dutch Lawsuit Puts Governments Around the World on Notice”