We and a growing number of lawmakers are proposing legislation to ensure that the companies that helped drive the climate crisis help pay their fair share of the ensuing damage.

    • desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      21 days ago

      And in that case, only the lawyers win. Remember there was a will that was battled for 190 years, iirc, in England and when it was settled, there wasn’t anything left for the claimants.

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      Usually people cannot be prosecuted of things that were not crimes when they commited the thing.