Not sure about this; my warm heart is doing its best to drag my sometimes too complaisant mind into rejoicing over this “cutting edge” ruling. Anything -almost anything- that serves to galvanise individual states into more urgent and bold action is at first (and second) blush valuable. As a (supposedly) retired criminal defence quasi-Rumpolesque hack, these are exotic and cerebral waters for me to be swimming (floundering?) in but we are-most of us, surely?- losing sleep over the stark, “doomsday” evidence of global warming confronting us every day. I for one would devoutly wish this judgment to jolt our government into more urgent and altruistic action and all of us into at least urgent representations to government to do more. I do however fear, like Joshua, that it may provide the “little England” contingent with yet another specious ground for demanding that we quit - whatever that would actually mean- the jurisdiction of this “nasty, foreign” Court.
Not sure about this; my warm heart is doing its best to drag my sometimes too complaisant mind into rejoicing over this “cutting edge” ruling. Anything -almost anything- that serves to galvanise individual states into more urgent and bold action is at first (and second) blush valuable. As a (supposedly) retired criminal defence quasi-Rumpolesque hack, these are exotic and cerebral waters for me to be swimming (floundering?) in but we are-most of us, surely?- losing sleep over the stark, “doomsday” evidence of global warming confronting us every day. I for one would devoutly wish this judgment to jolt our government into more urgent and altruistic action and all of us into at least urgent representations to government to do more. I do however fear, like Joshua, that it may provide the “little England” contingent with yet another specious ground for demanding that we quit - whatever that would actually mean- the jurisdiction of this “nasty, foreign” Court.
ECHR tells states what they can legislate, it seems
Well done, Judge Eicke