Youth Climate Courts: How You Can Host a Human Rights Trial for People and Planet Contributor(s): Kerns, Thomas a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1032109068 ISBN-13: 9781032109060 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics - Civil & Human Rights - Young Adult Nonfiction | Recycling & Green Living - Young Adult Nonfiction | Science & Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection |
Dewey: 344.046 |
LCCN: 2021031290 |
Physical Information: 0.26" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.35 lbs) 108 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book focuses on Youth Climate Courts, a bold new tool that young people in their teens to mid-twenties can use to compel their local city or county government to live up to its human rights obligations, formally acknowledge the climate crisis, and take major steps to address it. Tom Kerns shows how youth climate leaders can form their own local Youth Climate Court, with youth judges, youth prosecuting attorneys and youth jury members and put their local city or county government on trial for not meeting its human rights obligations. Kerns describes how a Youth Climate Court works, how to start one, what human rights are, what they require of local governments, and what governmental changes a Youth Climate Court can realistically hope to accomplish. The book offers young activists a brand new, user-friendly, cost-free, barrier-free, powerful tool for forcing local governments to come to terms with their obligation to protect the rights of their citizens with respect to the climate crisis. This book offers a unique new tool to young climate activists desperate for genuinely effective ways to directly move governments to aggressively address the climate crisis. |