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1. Congratulations on another article being published,

   I think you raised this question a few years ago: Suppose the plaintiffs are successful and the Court orders the Netherlands to reduce its emissions as demanded. What’s to stop the Dutch government from simply ignoring the ruling? Or, alternatively, announcing it will do its best to comply, but failing to bring about the desired reductions because of political pushback from the Dutch people? You asked, as I recall, will the Court order the Dutch government to be jailed for contempt? “Governments” don’t burn fossil fuels. Only persons (including corporations, as persons) do. It’s up to all those human consumers to decide to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels (and production of cement and agricultural methane), or not to. Maybe King Willem-Alexander should take his throne out to a choice spot behind one of the dikes, open it, and command the North Sea waters not to flow in. The prime minister of Bonaire might want to do the same.

   Leslie MacMillan

   Hamilton, Ontario.

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