 Today in a 6-3 decision the Supreme Court has sentenced the earth to burn Because they are saying that the environmental protection agency cannot actually regulate greenhouse gas emissions Which caused the planet to warm up. So as a result This is going to be catastrophic to say the least So a CBS News reports the Supreme Court on Thursday limited the power of the environmental protection agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions Delivering a significant blow to the Biden administration's efforts to fight climate change The court divided 6-3 along ideological lines in finding that congress through the clean air act did not grant the EPA the authority To adopt on its own a regulatory scheme to cap carbon dioxide emissions from power plants to combat global warming Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion while the court's three-member liberal bloc dissented The decision is a victory for a group of republican led states and coal companies in their years long bid to curtail the EPA's power To issue regulations intended to curb carbon emissions So the supreme court unilaterally is saying this agency that congress created to do just that protect the environment They can't actually do that. We decide this unelected group of rogue extremists. We say no, you can't do that I just I don't know How to be begin to even process all of these decisions because one after another we're losing civil rights Civil liberties and now we're losing the right to a clean planet because the only administrative body in our country Country that had the authority to do something with regard to climate change. The supreme court is now withdrawing that power it's just It's draconian. It's dystopian and this is just the beginning So I want to get some reactions that kind of highlight the implications of this case Sam cedar explains today scotis conservatives block our government from addressing climate change in near future They will stop our government from protecting workers regulating our financial systems keeping our air and water clean Our food safe and quashing any attempt to expand health coverage And he's right about that now prior to finding out the scope of this particular case Nathan tankis wrote go buy some usda inspected beef have some fda approved drugs Go get cash from your fdic insured bank account Bask in the warmth of a legal structure that is disappearing Now nathan here may have been off on his timing But there's no question that all regulatory bodies will be stripped of their authority if this real court is not Reigned in now ryan grim came in with a really good point saying so according to the epa opinion If congress doesn't want the epa to do what congress charged it by law with doing Shouldn't congress pass a new law saying so yet congress hasn't instead the court just rewrites the law itself Exactly They should run for congress if they want to rewrite laws now finally aoc says catastrophic a filibuster carveout is not enough We need to reform or do away with the whole thing for the sake of the planet And she's right about that people are going to attack her for being an extremist But let me remind you that climate scientists have been very very clear They've told us repeatedly that time is running out. We have to take action right now to save the planet Otherwise, we're not going to have a future And lawmakers have not gotten that through their heads yet, but The one body In our whole government that was actually doing good when it's not being run by republicans where they strip it of its authority Now because of the supreme court unilaterally taking away its power can't do anything. So we are basically Unarmed going into this climate apocalypse with nothing to protect ourselves It's all but a certainty at this point. And so what aoc is saying is extreme Yes, admittedly but necessary because it's either the supreme court Or our habitable planet abolished the court or expanded either way. We can't let this happen They have to be reigned in the court needs to be expanded as brian tyler cohen pointed out when the court was expanded in the 1800s to nine justices that was to kind of match the nine appeals courts circuit courts, excuse me, but now we have 13 so There you go. There's some out for you. Just take action biden. Otherwise, we're all doomed So make no mistake about it aoc is saying that the court has gone rogue and in her dissent I think that elena kegan also makes it clear that this rogue court is absolutely tyrannical Justice elena kegan joined by justices steven briar and sonia soto moir criticized the court's majority for imposing limits on the epa that quote flying the face of the statute written by congress And accused the majority of substituting its own ideas about policymaking for congresses Whatever else this court may know about it does not have a clue about how to address climate change And let's say the obvious the stakes are high justice elena kegan wrote in dissent Yet the court today prevents congressionally authorized agency action to curb power plants carbon dioxide emissions The court appoints itself instead of congress or the expert agency the decision maker on climate policy I cannot think of many things more frightening and this is a supreme court justice saying this Saying I can't think of anything more frightened that the supreme court Is doing this that they're going this far now a lot of people compare this era to the lockner court Where they were constantly gutting worker protections one after another after another and sure that's true of this era They are comparable to the lockner era court Because they don't really care at all about workers But they're much much worse than the lockner era Because their decisions now don't just affect workers in the united states They have global ramifications if the supreme court says that we the united states have no ability to rein in These companies that make us the biggest polluter on the planet that affects every single living being So we're at a situation where this rogue court is essentially dooming all of us to climate apocalypse and we just have to accept this for Two maybe three decades when the makeup changes, which by then will be out of time So I don't know How to come up with some sort of helpium for you all. 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