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Assignment

You are a lawyer working in a fictional country called Nambia.

In this country there is a city called Nambia One (NB1). It is the capital city and it is on the coast next to the Atlantic Ocean.

The infrastructure of the city is being extensively damaged by various natural phenomenon such as hurricanes, rising sea level, flooding and so forth.

Evidence will be led that all the problems are caused by climate change and this in turn is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. The cost of repairing the infrastructure is $300 billion dollars.

Your client, the city NB1, has obtained documents held by five oil companies American Oil, British Oil, Dutch Oil, Royal oil and Big Greedy Oil which shows that in 1975 they were fully aware that the burning of fossil fuels caused climate change.

However, they were afraid the if they made this known that Governments around the world would implement special regulations that would either impose a climate change tax on them or that Governments would implement laws that weaned society off fossil fuels.

These companies then set about on deliberate attempts to mislead the public and governments around the world about the impact of fossil fuels. These efforts included the following:

1) World-wide advertising campaigns alleging that burning fossil fuels did not cause climate change;

2) Paying scientist to conduct studies that showed that burning fossil fuels did not cause climate change;

3) Deliberately discrediting those scientists who showed that burning fossil fuels caused climate change using various underhand strategies;

You are to write a 6 page essay in which you advise NB1 whether they have an action against the oil companies.

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