Legal Campaign to Repeal Climate Policies
A Crowdsourced Effort to Expose the Carbon Accounting Chicanery in Court
Debunking the climate narrative has yet to stop misguided environmental actions. Pulling the rug from under it might. Such is the goal of this crowdsourced effort.
How to Help
While supporting this work will always be greatly appreciated (thank you if you do), highlighting this work to the parties involved in even one court case stands to be far more impactful. Doing so prevents the activities laid out below to depend on a single people or a small team of volunteer. Reach out by email or follow A Natural Language on Telegram so we can coordinate our efforts.
Legal Campaign
The main crowdsourced legal campaign aims to highlight this work to the relevant parties involved in climate court cases across the world. My sense is that defendants who bring up this work will derail most misguided climate policies that affect them without even needing to litigate the attribution science. This is because the textbook case of carbon accounting fraud and the shameless profiteering it documents make the chicanery indefensible in court.
The ideal case to reach out to is one where one or more parties are defending against climate related damage claims (these typically involve fossil fuel corporations) or misguided climate policies (those typically involve groups that aim to thwart carbon offset related land grabs or repeal nefarious policies).
You’ll typically hear about such cases through media reports. Sometimes, you’ll get lucky and one or more of the relevant protagonist will be listed in the press release. Other times, you’ll need to dig into the court records and search for the defendants and their attorneys. The dedicated websites that aggregate public court records tied to climate lawsuits periodically come in handy as well.
The defendants are usually the right people to reach out to, but not always. In at least two classes of cases, you’ll want to reach out to the court or to the attorneys directly if you can locate contact details.
The first of these are damage claim related lawsuits against fossil fuel interests, and actions directed that aim to force governments to take climate action. The nonprofits behind these lawsuits are usually funded by those who own fossil fuel interests, so it’s really just a legal clown show to conjure precedents and obligations out of thin air. In these cases, consider sending an amicus brief if the attorneys are unresponsive.
The second of these are lawsuits where the defendant so firmly believes in the climate propaganda (typically left-aligned environmental or indigenous groups), or so firmly disbelieve it (typically right-aligned groups of landowners), that they refuse to engage on the basis that the work is at odds with their worldview (“climate change denier!” in the first case, “why bother reading this paper, climate change is all BS anyway” in the second). I’ve found that their attorneys were more level headed than the groups when interacting with them, so it’s best to stick with asking them to put you through so you can provide their attorneys with information that is material to their case.
Case and Desist Campaign
Another angle that I’ve yet to try but that would no doubt make sense is to send cease and desist letters to key protagonists.
The idea is that accepting a cease and desist letter sent to you creates liability. For instance, if you were administering drugs with well documented side effects without the informed consent of your patients, then receiving one such letter would prevent you from eventually claiming you didn’t know when you face justice for your crimes against humanity. The same holds for administrators who mandate being injected with these drugs to attend, say, a school.
Confronting investment funds about the misleading environmental claims of their green investment products is not a stretch. Doing so would be a good way to defund misguided climate policies and possibly detonate green finance. There might even be jurisdictions where the carbon accounting chicanery can be construed as accounting fraud for all I know. To participate, get standing if needed (for instance by investing), and join, threaten, or start a lawsuit. At minimum you’ll get the legal department’s attention and trigger internal discussions.
Such cases will matter eventually, because the cases tied to the above legal campaign will likely all get dropped before they’re able to set legal precedents that could thwart the environmental propaganda. Going after green finance outfits, by contrast, would put claimants in the position of being able to ignore the defendants’ bargain pleas. They’d thereby stand to litigate the carbon attribution science on the record all the way to highest courts if needed.
Confronting academics, leaders, administrators, and others about the neocolonial violence that they are enabling would likely be a stretch for a court case. But it might bring them to think about what they’re a part of — unwittingly, no doubt. So it may be worth sending them polite if firm snail mail as well.
Support this Work
As noted earlier, while supporting this work will always be greatly appreciated (thank you if you do), the most impactful thing you can do is to take part by highlighting this work to the parties involved in a climate court case as indicated above.
About the Author
Denis de Bernardy is the author of A Natural Language. His work exposes environmental big lies and puts solutions in front of the actual problems.