All-Societies Platform: "Our Children’s Trust" - BES Virtual Sunday Platform

April 30. All Society Program.

We are thrilled to announce that our next All-Societies Platform with special guests from Our Children’s Trust ( https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/ ) is taking place on April 30th! This is a great opportunity to meet the lawyer and some of the youth plaintiffs in the upcoming lawsuit Held v. State of Montana, the first ever constitutional and children’s climate trial in U.S. history- which will begin on June 12th in Helena, Montana.

On March 13, 2020, 16 young people from across the state of Montana filed their constitutional climate lawsuit against the state, asserting that by supporting a fossil fuel driven energy system, which is contributing to the climate crisis, Montana is violating their constitutional rights to a clean and healthful environment, to seek safety, health and happiness, and to individual dignity and equal protection of the law. They also argue that the state’s fossil fuel energy system is degrading and depleting Montana’s constitutionally protected public trust resources, including the atmosphere, rivers and lakes, fish and wildlife

Our Children’s Trust on the March 3, 2019 episode of CBS News’ 60 Minutes.
https://youtu.be/C1g2K4DRxLo