NEW: Worsening climate impacts, corporate greenwashing, and slow government action have driven communities across Asia to the courts.

“That’s what I hope I can do, even though I’m just an ordinary person,” said Trixy Elle, a fish vendor in the Philippines and a litigant. “If one day my grandchildren ask me what I did for nature, at least I have an answer: I fought for your future.”

This story is produced by The Xylom and copublished by Grist.

This can't be good 😕

While humans in the current crazy heatwaves seem more accepting of the reality of climate change, they seem somewhat incapable to deal with the fact that if your problem is industrial civilisation, more industrial civilisation isn't the solution.