'Climate lockdown' anger drives Swiss grandmother to sue government at EU court

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Her frustration with what she calls 'climate lockdown' is part of her motivation for suing the Swiss government alongside more than 2,000 other elderly women.

Switzerland's policies to date are deemed "insufficient" by Climate Action Tracker, a website that monitors states' action on global warming.The Swiss government declined to comment on the case. It told the court that the changes to the women's lives during heatwaves like staying at home were "quite common" and that everyone, including plants and animals, was affected.

Anne Mahrer, co-president of the association Senior Women for Climate Protection, which is an applicant in the case in its own right alongside Ms Volkoff, told Reuters that her years as a former politician persuaded her to pursue another route. Frustration drove one father to do a long hunger strike outside parliament and other climate activists to launch civil disobedience campaigns.

 

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“Everyone including plants and animals were affected” 🤨 exactly

A typical propaganda piece. Guaranteed there will be no follow up on this story when these old commies are laughed out of court And not once does the article mention how hot it got in Switzerland in that 11 week period - because it wasn’t actually that hot

Don’t know why she bothers. The EU court is just a bunch of left wing hacks unaccountable to anyone.

. What? Israel's President is trying to take over the judiciary, and the protests have closed the nation? People are talking about a coup? Shhh... don't tell the ABC. They're not allowed to report on that... .

For thousands and thousands of years the climate has been changing, nothing new. Trying to do something about it is like attempting to stop the tides going in and out.....One good bit of advise...don't get dumbed out by climate bull shit.

'Last summer, while dozens of Swiss pensioners were campaigning in the Alps to save their fast-melting glaciers' Ice melts in summer? Who knew? Old people die? Who knew?

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