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🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm sure a lot of people think their states are special, but I'm very partial to my own. |
0:10.4 | That's Grace Gibson Snyder. |
0:13.0 | What I always say about Montana is you can always get too high, no matter where you are |
0:18.6 | within 10 minutes driving. |
0:20.6 | Usually way less. |
0:22.9 | Grace is 19 years old and as you can hear, she loves her state and all the natural beauty |
0:28.6 | it offers. |
0:30.4 | My hometown, Missoula, has a river that runs right through it and I spend time in the |
0:37.2 | summers boating it, floating it, waiting in it. |
0:41.2 | My family has hunted and fished. |
0:44.5 | We have little haunts all over the state where my grandfather, for example, went backpacking |
0:49.8 | in the same area for 40 years every single year. |
0:54.7 | Underlying everyone's life in Montana is an appreciation for and maybe even more importantly |
1:02.0 | it dependents upon the natural environment. |
1:05.2 | So many people subsist upon agriculture and ranching and so there is this super deep generational |
1:14.4 | cultural connection to the outdoors, to adapt in an intensity that I haven't yet found |
1:20.6 | anywhere else. |
1:23.6 | But Grace's home state is changing. |
1:27.4 | Climate change is threatening her family's connection to the outdoors and even though |
1:31.4 | she's just 19, Grace has decided to do something about it. |
1:36.2 | She's a plaintiff in Held v Montana, a landmark climate change lawsuit. |
1:41.4 | The suit relies on an unusual legal strategy, using language in the state's constitution |
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