THE RULING OF THE EUROPEAN COURT of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz v. Switzerland is indefensible, and a bald challenge against the foundations of democratic self-governance in this country.
The lawsuit in question was brought by a group of elderly Swiss women who luxuriate under the name of the Association of Swiss Senior Women for Climate Protection. The plaintiffs furnished a long list of sufferings they endured as a result of global warming: one needed to “organise her life according to the weather forecast”; another had to adjust by “going to the shops earlier and getting fresh air at night”.
It is important not to look away at this point: this is the infantile basis on which we are being ruled and overruled. Sovereign, democratic British politics are being set aside because
