anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. would that be constitutional? no, your honor. it would not be constitutional. because that s the same state interest, i would think, you know. if you are over the age of 55, you don t help us serve the government s interest in regulating pro creation through marriage. so why is that different? your honor, even with respect to couples over the age of 55, it is very rare that both couples both parties to the couple are infertile. no, really, because, if a couple i can just assure you, if both the woman and the man are over the age of 55, there are not a lot of children coming out of that marriage. your honor, society s society s interest in responsible pro creation isn t just with respect to the
about this is that satellite studies and on the ground studies tell us the ice around greenland and antarctica is melting and flowing into the oceans at ever-increasing rates. society s the sea level is increasing. right now it s rising at three millimeters a year. if you extrapolate that out we re talking a foot in the next 100 years. so if it s a foot in the next 100 years, i don t mean to belittle this, but a foot in the next 100 years on the coast of california, basically people could stay in their houses. yes. but what you would get is dramatic changes to the beaches and coastal areas, you also need to think about the storm surge being higher. take like new york. a lot of the transportation infrastructure is only a foot above sea level. so while it doesn t sound like a lot it could be depending on how much a storm surge would put up. but a foot is a minimum, it s not even a real estimate. the real estimates we go are higher than that, more like two