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We can draw when we look at earth's past history. we see examples of stability, of resilience. the climate system has a certain amount of resilience built into it. and we can see episodes and examples of that in the past. we can also see examples where earth's climate started to spin out of control. when you hit it hard enough, it can spin out of control. so right now we are sort of a knee in between area. there is still a margin of error. if we get our act together, if we prevent the warming of the planet from exceeding two or three degrees celsius, we can prevent the sort of runaway catastro...

Follow this closely and are very nervous and extras about the future of our planet, on one hand, we want more allies. we need to have more allies in this fight. but as i mentioned, you're also seeing politicians standing in that way, some running for office on the basis of denying climate change and wanting legislation to be passed to make sure that more fossil fuels are used, not less. >> yeah, and it's why we need courts looking at constitutional rights in this context, because if a court says that continuing to permit falsifies is unconstitutional, because it's destroying the climate system...

Plus-page opinion with the evidence supported finding that those fundamental rights are harmed when our climate system is being so integrated by fossil fuel pollution. and so, we're really optimistic, going up to the montana supreme court, that when they apply the constitution in this case, and look at the facts that were found in the lower court, this will prevail. >> you brought up a very important point about the judge 's ruling and how it declared that montana had violated several of its constituents constitutional rights, including equal protection, dignity, i believe liberty, health, and...

Hand we want more allies and we need to have more allies in this fight -- but as i mentioned, you are also seeing politicians standing in that way who, some running for office on the basis of denying climate change and wanting to legislation be passed in -- more fossil fuels use, not less. >> yeah, and it is why we need courts looking at constitutional rights in this context, because if a court says that continuing to permit promote fossil fuels is unconstitutional because it's destroying the climate system on which life depends, then no legislature can continue to do that. that would be decla...

Passed to make sure that most fossil fuel is he was not less. >> yes and that's why we need a courts looking at constitutional rights. in this context, because of a court, if they say that continuing to promote fossil fuels is unconstitutional, because it is destroying the climate system on which life depends, then no legislature could continue doing that. that would be declared unconstitutional. and what we are doing is really similar to what, you know, the young students were doing and the cases that led up to brown versus the board of education, finding that segregation was unconstitutional...