Life, liberty and the right to a stable climate?

A group of young Americans say President Donald Trump is trampling their inalienable rights through an aggressive push for fossil fuels and a crusade against federal climate science -- and on Tuesday, a rural courtroom in Missoula, Montana will be their stage in a closely watched showdown.

Lighthiser v. Trump is emblematic of a growing global trend of legal action as a tool to push action on planetary warming amid political inertia -- or outright hostility.

"It's very intimidating to think about my future," lead plaintiff Eva Lighthiser recently told AFP in Washington, where she and other plaintiffs represented by the nonprofit Our Children's Trust recently traveled to lobby lawmakers.

The 19-year-old from Livingston, Montana, described

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