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A lawsuit currently in the appeals process is looking at the federal response to climate change from another angle. Brought by the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) and Seeding Sovereignty, the lawsuit alleges that when the federal government ignores the climate crisis, it violates Americans’ right to be free.
The lawsuits claim that the government is violating freedoms; namely the freedom to live one’s life and the freedom to not be impacted by others nonconsensually. The goal of the suit is to compel the federal government to act on climate change, according to the ALDF. “Seeding Sovereignty believes that the right to nature is the right to life, inherently essential, priceless in value, and worth protecting,” said Seeding Sovereignty Executive Director Janet MacGillivray in a statement on the lawsuit.