• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The whole point of the constitution is “to ensure domestic tranquility”, and “no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process…” but I guess we get to handwave that if the means of deprivation being legislated is a second order effect.

  • Chickenstalker@lemmy.world
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    They’re right though. BUT, your Constitution is supposed to be a living document, not the Bible (ironically the Bible has been…edited many times), so you should amend it.

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    There isn’t. It’s just that if you keep destabilizing the climate your practical right to keep your head and shoulders in the same place keeps deminishing

  • Cleverdawny@lemm.ee
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    I mean, there isn’t one. The Biden administration has been the most active on climate change in American history, but the constitution is silent on the subject.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    The right to manipulate the environment was not specifically conveyed to Congress, so it is retained by the states or the people. Congress is therefore infringing on our 10th amendment right to a stable environment when it acts outside of its mandate.

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    There’s also no constitutional right for the internal temperature of the White House not to exceed 950°F, but the fires are on their way anyway.

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    There is no constitutional right for lots of stuff

    Constitution doesn’t grant rights, it just defines the ones that have been made relevant. Climate change has now made the right to a stable climate relevant, and thus the proper course of action is an amendment.

    I’m not dumb though, I know that shit won’t budge in our current government. So what is to be done when a fucked up government and it’s people disagree about what rights the people have? Something necessary but unpleasant…

  • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world
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    I suppose you could argue they are technically sort of rightish but uh, hey, what the fuck? We all have to live here you fucking assholes!

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    This isn’t surprising. Thw US Constitution doesn’t encompass all legislation or possibilities. That’s the purpose of legislation from congress.

    That so many keep turning tonl the constitution all the time for answers speaks volumes about how broken the US Congress and state level political systems are.

    Basically if we want legislation to enforce climate stabilisation and prioritisation then the US needs to do something about it’s polarised and clogged up political system.

    Personally I think proportional representation to break the power of the duopoly of dems and repubs is the way to go. Citizens in individual states and communities may even have potential routes to do that at local levels through their plebiscite systems. They could break the system from the bottom but for whatever reason aren’t.

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      They could break the system from the bottom but for whatever reason aren’t.

      Comfort. The system as it is, is predictable. Not just the voting public but members of Congress too. Good example the FED rate. At any point Congress could have put forth fiscal policy to address the looming monetary situation that quantitative easing was very clearly bringing. But they didn’t because no one wanted to be the group that ended the party. Because what would happen if they implemented policy and then poof, slow down of the economy or inflation?

      But of course we know what happened. No fiscal policy got implemented and basically we kept riding that gravy train till it was completely untenable. Then monetary policy had to be implemented. Then came a massive spike in inflation. Congress was so scared to implement any kind of policy that they basically ensured the thing they didn’t want happening.

      Then you’ve got folks like Senator Elizabeth Warren trying to blame the FED chairman and it is like, “No, you’re inaction Senator is why the FED chairman must do the things he must do. All 100 of you are culpable in this, you all sat there and did nothing.”

      But of course one brings this up and some folks want to try and hijack it like “See both sides!” Or you get “No the other team is much worse!” And the reality is, most members of Congress are just too sheepish to implement any kind of bold policy. Because what if it doesn’t work? There’s the obvious bunch that are seen most often in the news, but there’s way more members than the ones that seek out face time on the TV. And those are the majority.

      The majority of Congress just wants to push the button they’re told to push, collect their paycheck, and move on. And that is why we see no motion. The polarization is the visible figureheads battling it out, but the real culprit is indifference and a desire to maintain the comfortable world that has known qualities. Very rarely is actual original thought obtained in the US Congress.

  • havokdj@lemmy.world
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    There’s also nothing in the constitution that says we can’t take firearms and kill the living shit out of the motherfuckers that run our offices when they make statements that go against the wellbeing of the US people, kinda similar to the one made here