{"id":15300,"date":"2015-12-15T08:52:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T13:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15300"},"modified":"2015-12-15T08:52:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T13:52:48","slug":"answering-for-climate-change-a-peruvian-farmer-sues-an-energy-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15300","title":{"rendered":"Answering For Climate Change: A Peruvian Farmer Sues an Energy Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"post-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/glacier-and-mountain.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/glacier-and-mountain-300x130.jpg 300x, http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/glacier-and-mountain.jpg 690x\" alt=\"Glacier\" width=\"690\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/permaculturenews.org\/2015\/12\/15\/answering-for-climate-change-a-peruvian-farmer-sues-an-energy-giant\/\" target=\"_blank\">ANSWERING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: A PERUVIAN FARMER SUES AN ENERGY GIANT<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-meta\">Saul Luciano Lliuya lives near Huaraz, a city in the Andes. Huaraz may not exist much longer, thanks to the swiftly melting Churup Glacier. The glacier feeds a lake which has grown more than thirty times in volume over the past four decades, and threatens to swallow Huaraz, along with Lliuya\u2019s home and his farm. Scientists believe that the lake\u2019s growth is a direct result of global warming. Lliuya has written letters of complaint to companies that contribute significantly to CO2 emissions, in the hopes of raising enough money to combat the problem and save his town and livelihood. His letters have gone unanswered.<\/div>\n<p><strong>LEGAL OR POLITICAL BARRIERS?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lliuya, after being ignored by energy giant RWE, the\u00a0\u201cbiggest single emitter of CO2\u201d\u00a0in Europe, has decided to take a different route, with the help of NGO Germanwatch: he\u2019s suing. While many people believe that ascribing legal fault to companies that contribute to climate change is untenable, others disagree, like Andrew Gauge, West Coast Environmental Law Staff Counsel. Gage contends that the problem with tackling companies and holding them accountable for their contributions to global warming is not without legal precedent. Instead, he says,\u00a0\u201cThe reality is that the barriers are political, not legal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why Lliuya\u2019s case against RWE is attracting so much notice. Even if the farmer doesn\u2019t succeed, the outcome of the case could open the doors for future cases. As Gage puts it,\u00a0\u201cYou can\u2019t have a business model where you know you are causing billions of dollars of harm each year,\u201d\u00a0while discounting any responsibility for that damage.\u00a0\u201cSooner or later, that conversation comes back to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANSWERING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: A PERUVIAN FARMER SUES AN ENERGY GIANT Saul Luciano Lliuya lives near Huaraz, a city in the Andes. Huaraz may not exist much longer, thanks to the swiftly melting Churup Glacier. The glacier feeds a lake which has grown more than thirty times in volume over the past four decades, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,113,11050,141,263,8748,1593,11051],"class_list":["post-15300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-andes","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-churup-glacier","tag-climate-change","tag-energy","tag-permaculture-news","tag-peru","tag-rwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15302,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300\/revisions\/15302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}