Via the first cause of global warming

The ice does not encompass more Kivalina, and winter is increasingly vulnerable to violent storms of? Arctic Ocean. Many homes were destroyed by the storms, others have been abandoned: the whole country is slowly slipping into the sea. Blame for global warming, say his three hundred and ninety people, who have therefore decided to withdraw from some large oil companies such as Exxon, Shell and BP. They argue, those responsible for disaster: the world is warming due to greenhouse gas emissions, so it's the fault of the oil that is melting the ice at the North Pole. This challenge to the oil giants by environmentalists of Kivalina, Inuit moreover, is the first case ever brought in the United States for global warming.

The village is situated on an island of land and ice in northern Alaska, more than a thousand miles from Anchorage already polar. It 'always surrounded by sea ice where, for centuries, salmon fishing and hunting caribou. "Once we began to freeze in October, but today we are left with long stretches of open sea until December, and so our island is not protected from storms," said the manager of a small town, Janet Mitchell. "The island is more exposed to the wind and found increasingly accelerated erosion due to loss of sea ice."

Although U.S. law does not provide the offense of global warming, supported by three non-profit organizations in the village of Kivalina's lawyers decided to proceed with the case, arguing that if the ice is melting Kivalina is guilty of four oil companies and fourteen companies for electricity, which cause millions of tons of greenhouse gases. The legal arguments of lawyers is simple. And the damage of such magnitude that it could threaten the very life of the island, are easily detectable and provable.

The lawyers are then flown to San Francisco, where some of the most important legal hannosede oil companies of America, and lehanno reported to the Federal Court, accusing them of being responsible for damage reported nelvillaggio. According to the prosecutor MattPawa is the main cause for global warming never brought to America having "a victim distinguishable. The inhabitants of the Arctic hamlet ask for damages 400 thousand dollars. Shortly, after all. Especially when having to share the penalty will be big cartel of oil.

from "Republic"