Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming

hightower_40 writes to mention that a small Alaskan village has sued two dozen oil, power, and coal companies, blaming them for contributing to global warming. "Sea ice traditionally protected the community, whose economy is based in part on salmon fishing plus subsistence hunting of whale, seal, walrus, and caribou. But sea ice that forms later and melts sooner because of higher temperatures has left the community unprotected from fall and winter storm waves and surges that lash coastal areas."

Surges That Lash Coastal...

[Wandering Wombat]

... coastal what?

Re:Mistargeted law suit?

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

I would start with Al Gore, the amount of hot air and smug that comes from him must have had some effect on the environment.

I'm going to sue the Sun!

[tjstork]

I've been working so hard to warm the planet up, with my CO2 belching truck, but the lack of sunspots has made this year the coldest and snowiest winter since the 1960s....

Re:Surges That Lash Coastal...

[Harmonious Botch]

It got washed away.

Re:It's not "mis-targetted"

[jameskojiro]

Relocate them to the moon, it may take 1 billion per head but maybe it will send the message that after these alaskans die of asphixia on the moon that you don't sue over dumb ass shit like this.

How far back?

[jamesl]

Are they going to sue us back to the last ice age?

simple really ....

[Brigadier]

cost per person to relocate inhabitants = $30,000
cost per person to have lawyers sign moving agreement = $970,000

going to law school and specializing in environmental law .. priceless

In other news...

[starglider29a]

Descendants of the former in habitants of Petra [wikipedia.org] are suing for the loss of revenue when their ancestors' city became uninhabitable due to climate change. Defendants in the suit include the Italian Government, citing that two major events under their ancestors' rule were contributing factors in their decline, namely:

1. The burning of Christian martyrs by Nero
2. The burning of Rome itself under Nero
3. The Government of Pompeii for failing to properly mitigate the greenhouse gas footprint of Mount Vesuvius.

They also filed a Friend of the Court brief on behalf of the Clovis populations, pending the location of the culpable party or parties for the meteor [physorg.com], or Clovis descendants for that matter. Ok, seriously folks... We hear so much about how these "native peoples", what Daniel Quinn in Ishmael called "The Leavers" live in balance with nature. But nature changes, with or without our helf. And change they must... or else. I am neither a Global Warming Nay Sayer, nor DoomSayer. Global warming happens. It's part of nature. WE are part of nature. Get over it. If you have to, move on. Try Houghton, Michigan. You might like it. They have a university there [mtu.edu] where you can learn technical skills to combat global warming (or prove it doesn't exist, I don't care which) And they have a great hockey team.

Re:It's not "mis-targetted"

[Himring]

Quick eskimo jokes:

How do you kill an polarbear? Kick him in the icehole....

A baby seal walks into a club....

Um, all I have for now

Try the veal

Steven Seagal will make another movie...

[Nicolay77]

Where the villagers win and the big corporations lose.

Fight global warming with aikido!!!

speaking as an Alaskan

[element-o.p.]

I hope there IS global warming. This winter was frikken cold!

re: The funny thing - Eskimo cars

[z80kid]

An Eskimo is driving when his car starts to make a noise. He takes it to the garage and the mechanic looks at it. "Hmm, looks like you've blown a seal."

"No," says the Eskimo, "it's just frost on my mustache."

~~~
(What the hell, I've got some karma to burn.)

Re:It's not "mis-targetted"

[Stanistani]

That was very insensitive.

I suppose you walrus hurt the ones you love.

Re:Mistargeted law suit?

[Anonymous Coward]

The earth can support 6 billion modern people. It already does. It cannot support 6 billion cave-men.

Clearly. We'd be certain to run out of caves long before we hit the 6 billion mark. And frankly, I don't even want to begin to contemplate the logistics of supplying all of them with clubs and loincloths.

Re:Mistargeted law suit?

[Anonymous Coward]

On the other hand, that puts him above most chaircritters, in that he is actually consuming his own company's products!

Re:Mistargeted law suit?

[thekm]

oh, piss off... if you can't put up with others to mis-quoting, taking out of context, paraphrasing and or even completely rewriting the post you're replying to, it's you who doesn't belong on slashdot!

I welcome our new radioactively contaminated overlords!