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Environmentalists Try a New Argument in Court: It’s Legal to Break the Law to Save the Planet

GREATER GOOD?

For the first time ever, the ‘necessity defense’ will be allowed to let activists argue illegally shutting off pipelines isn’t a crime compared to global warming.

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