Climate change belief given same legal status as religion

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Being entitled to a job provided by someone else seems to be a religion, too. Would anyone believe that just over 100 years ago, the U.K. was the nation whose empire the sun never set on?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6494213/Climate-change-belief-given-same-legal-status-as-religion.html

An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs.

In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that "a belief in man-made climate change ... is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations".

The ruling could open the door for employees to sue their companies for failing to account for their green lifestyles, such as providing recycling facilities or offering low-carbon travel.

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Avatar konane -
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Lawyers win every time.
Avatar Rick G -
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Praise the Lord! For He is Green...

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