They Knew: The US Federal Government's Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis

This book presents a devastating account of the federal government’s leading role in causing today’s climate crisis.

In 2015, twenty-one young people sued the federal government for violating their constitutional rights by promoting the climate catastrophe, depriving them of life, liberty, and property without due process. Author James Speth, an expert on climate, documents how administrations from Carter to Trump, despite knowing about climate change and its connection to fossil fuels, continued aggressively supporting a fossil fuel-based energy system.

The book presents the most compelling indictment yet of the government’s forty-year failure to take action.

Since Juliana v. United States was filed, the federal government has repeatedly delayed the case, but it has helped inspire a generation of youthful climate activists.

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