Federal Judge Dismisses Cities’ Suit Against Oil Companies Over Climate Change(nytimes.com)
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Federal Judge Dismisses Cities’ Suit Against Oil Companies Over Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/climate/climate-change-lawsuit-san-francisco-oakland.html
'Judge Alsup said that climate change was an issue of global importance but that the companies were not solely at fault. “Our industrial revolution and the development of our modern world has literally been fueled by oil and coal,” he wrote. “Without those fuels, virtually all of our monumental progress would have been impossible.”
In light of that, he asked: “Would it really be fair to now ignore our own responsibility in the use of fossil fuels and place the blame for global warming on those who supplied what we demanded? Is it really fair, in light of those benefits, to say that the sale of fossil fuels was unreasonable?”'