Nathan Baring (left) with other plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States in 2017. (Our Children’s Trust) By Alessandra Bergamin / Waging Nonviolence In 2015, 21 young Americans, more than half of whom are Black, Indigenous and people of color, began the process of suing the U.S. government. The constitutional climate lawsuit, known as Juliana v. United States, asserts that by creating a national energy system that causes climate change, the executive branch has “violated the youngest generation’s