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David Arkush is the director of the Public Citizen Climate Program, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and co-author of the forthcoming Harvard Environmental Law Review article entitled “Climate Homicide: Prosecuting Big Oil for Climate Deaths.” Together with Aaron Regunberg, who is a progressive organizer and senior climate policy counsel at Public Citizen, he has written an article for The New Republic called The Case for Prosecuting Fossil Fuel Companies for Homicide.
Wow. Let that sink in for a moment. Could such a thing even be possible? How can we hold executives today responsible for the actions of their predecessors, many of whom have died and left us to deal with the consequences of their bad acts? Arkush and Regenburg have an answer to that question. The objective is not to…
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