Bedrock Rights: The Human Rights Case Against Climate Change

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Date of Publication: November 9

Year of Publication: 2021

Publication City: Great Barrington, MA

Publisher: Orion

Author(s): Kathleen Dean Moore

Journal: Orion Magazine

This week, more than 25,000 people gather at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow to address what is not only a global environmental catastrophe, but a global crisis of justice. In a series of four articles, Orion contributor and former board member Kathleen Dean Moore reports on an international human rights court ruling that transnational fossil fuel corporations and governments, in collusion, are directly violating rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Part One: Introduction
Part Two: Water
Part Three: Life
Part Four: Conclusions

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