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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		How To Solve Climate Change? Think Like A Kid.
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:07:16
	Publish Date:		2018-05-12 12:02:00
	Description:		A few years ago, a group of teenagers in Washington state took on one of our most perplexing problems with a novel strategy: They sued the state government for failing to safeguard the climate for future generations. The tactic was new, the plaintiffs were young, and yet, they won. A superior court judge ruled in their favor in 2016. But then nothing much happened. Now they’re trying again, this time suing the federal government. Seventeen year-old Aji Piper has become one of the faces of this effort. Now he gives talks and interviews all over, even though he’s still a senior in high school. Aji and his mother Helaina joined us in our studio, and he explained that the notoriety has been kind of a mixed bag.
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