Boulder Youths Sue Colorado For Global Warming
10-year-old Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, 11-year-old Haiden Inskeep and 18-year-old Cecelia Kluding-Rodriguez are joined by WildEarth Guardians, an environmental activist and protection organization of which Martinez is a member, to sue the state as a concerted effort to establish the “atmosphere as a public trust resource” and for damages due to health issues that have surface for the three youths due to a failure to protect the natural environment, according the lawsuit filed by their attorneys.
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"I started speaking at events since I was six," Roske-Martinez told HuffPost.
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Each Boulder County youth sues for different reasons. Martinez and Inskeep are described in the filed complaint as boys who have enjoyed the local outdoors near their Boulder County homes, but the streams he used to play in have dried up, the forests near Brainard Lake are now impacted by pine beetles, impairing his ability to continue to enjoy the natural environment around them.
Kluding-Rodriguez is described as having asthma which is aggravated by the climate change, air pollution, more ozone and increased wildfires in the area. The complaint states, “A hotter climate also means earlier blooms in spring and a longer season for fall allergens such as ragweed and mugwort, which means more plants and more pollen, which can exacerbate asthma and respiratory diseases.”
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