Won't Somebody Think of the Parents?

Enigmatic and alien values have manifested themselves in a ruling by the constitutional court of South Korea, which specifies an obligation to provide legally binding targets for reducing greenhouse emissions. The decision concludes a lawsuit brought four years ago by the kind of young people for whom Team Starmer would probably like to bring back Borstal, who claimed that the government's lack of interest in proper climate action violated the rights of future generations. The court's finding for the plaintiffs, and the possibility that the decision will set a precedent for other Asian countries, demonstrates the distance still separating those countries from that supreme moral maturity which has led Britons who grew up with a functioning national health service, affordable housing and public utilities, and Europe-wide freedom of movement to spend the last four decades voting all such advantages out of their children's reach.