The case against climate change
ONE OF THE FEW LEGAL concepts I remember from my student days half a century ago is remoteness of damage. To take a simple example, if you run Germany’s largest electricity generator you might expect people to accuse you of contributing to global warming by pumping out greenhouse gases. But you wouldn’t expect to be sued by a Peruvian farmer whose home town in the Andes is at risk of being flooded by melting mountain glaciers.
And yet that’s exactly what is happening. In response, the
