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Category: Torts For Our Time

One man's nightmare scenario is another man's El Dorado.

A Climate of Greed Never Changes

Among the nightmare scenarios of global warming, there's one only now coming into view - and it's definitely manmade: As predictable as the rising seas, we can expect a flood of class-action lawsuits trying to cash in on the issue.

Climate change promises to be "a lucrative new field" for the tort bar reports the Newark Star-Ledger. A Rutgers law professor predicts that global warming will make for "one of the biggest legal practices in the next 20 years." (The Star-Ledger, 7/8/07)

The opinion is shared by the president of the World Resources Institute: "Companies that generate significant carbon emissions," he warns, "face the threat of lawsuits similar to those common in the tobacco, pharmaceutical and asbestos industries." (The Toronto Star, 4/29/07)

From Overlawyered

I have read the entire Overlawyered rant three times. For the life of me I have yet to find the downside to the nightmare scenario.

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