I’ll continue my trend of bringing my outside conversations into this realm. It was my brother I was talking to this time, and one of the interesting things he brought up was the fact that, “everyone agrees that if/when the [sh*t] hits the fan, the poorest countries will feel the impact first and worst… but nobody’s trying to fix that.”
He is obviously not the first person to bring this up, but I think this is an issue that isn’t discussed enough, and I can’t overstate its importance. Especially on a moral level, I think the dynamics of this are crucial given that it is the wealthiest countries, and the U.S. in particular, who by far contribute the most to carbon emissions. It is not just the wealth of a nation that matters though - just as with natural disasters, it is the poor across the board who will bear the brunt of a changing climate.