I am not sure at what point the injustice of climate change starts to haunt good people of conscience but it has to be close. Climate change exposes the poor to greater and greater risk and disaster.
They received little of the benefit of the industrial and automotive revolution but they will suffer its side effects. This risk map shows why climate crisis is the problem is really more of a moral imperative to act better than lots of reports and facts. The transfer of resources in exchange for sending risks is the cursed trade of the 21st century. We are breeding a new system to transfer the suffering, the death, pain and displacement on to distant and poor people to maintain a lifestyle of indulgence. Sugar, silk, opium and cotton have been replaced by greenhouse gas.
“The Climate Divide,†a set of stories in The Times earlier this year, revealed how money and technology shield advanced nations from climate-related hazards like drought and flooding, while many countries most in harm’s way are also among the world’s poorest, and thus most at risk.
Now a new analysis has looked in more detail at health risks that could be amplified in a warming world and finds the same profound disconnect. Countries responsible for the most greenhouse-gas emissions are also the least vulnerable to diseases, heat-related ailments or nutrition problems associated with changing climate conditions.
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