CO2 är redan uppe i 415 ppm över Mauna Loa! Det ökar rasande fort och såna här nivåer har inte funnits under mänsklighetens existens.
There is more CO2 in the atmosphere today than any point since the evolution of humans
"We don't know a planet like this."
That was the reaction of meteorologist Eric Holthaus to news that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen in the entirety of human existence -- not history, existence.
According to data from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is over 415 parts per million (ppm), far higher than at any point in the last 800,000 years, since before the evolution of homo sapiens.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/13/health/carbon-dioxide-world-intl/index.html
Vi har sett flera stämningar mot oljebolag. Nu stämmer folk från en ögrupp utanför Australien regeringen för dess passivitet, som hotar deras öar och livsstil. De anser att klimatet är en mänsklig rättighet och det måste man ju hålla med om.
Det måste vara brottsligt att förstöra våra grundläggande livsbetingelser. Vi har sågat och sågat på grenen som vi sitter på och har ingen annanstans att ta vägen.
Australia faces 'world-first' climate change human rights case
Torres Strait Islanders say Australia's failure to tackle climate change puts their homeland and culture in danger.
Indigenous people from the low-lying Torres Strait Islands off Australia's northeast coast will file a landmark complaint with the United Nations on Monday, accusing the government of breaching their human rights by failing to tackle climate change.
The eight Torres Strait Islanders will tell the UN Human Rights Committee in the Swiss city of Geneva that rising seas caused by global warming are threatening their homelands and culture, according to lawyers representing the group.
ClientEarth, an environmental law non-profit organisation that is backing the case, said it was the first to be lodged with the UN linking alleged government inaction on climate change to the violation of human rights.
The islanders say Australia's government has no policies in place to meet the country's emissions reduction target and is pushing the interests of the fossil fuel industries.
In their complaint, the islanders ask the UN to find that international human rights law requires Australia to reduce its emissions to at least 65 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.
The country should become carbon neutral by 2050, phasing out its use and export of coal completely, they argue.
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"Climate change is fundamentally a human rights issue," said Sophie Marjanac, the lead lawyer on the case.
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John Knox, a law professor at Wake Forest University in the United States and a former UN special rapporteur on human rights, called the islanders' claim "potentially groundbreaking".
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/05/australia-faces-world-climate-change-human-rights-case-190513050431042.html
