ABSTRACT
This chapter considers various possible objections to the argumentative narrative related to climate change. Hulme suggests that in framing climate change as the "mother of all problems" we have created a monster ever more fearsome and increasingly beyond our reach. Significant mitigation strategies slashing greenhouse gas emissions are central to any compelling climate policy. This can make the clearest long-term gains for any predictive modelling for how the next decades or centuries could play out. The interconnections between climate change and human rights law remains an evolving area. The main problem for establishing human rights claims in relation to climate change is meeting specific causation requirements like the so-called “but for” test. This is a common legal rule to establish that some alleged rights infringement was caused by specific cause. The climate is changing and we must change with it, while living in the shadow of an ever-present possibility of endangerment.
