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>The report also references for the first time “historical and ongoing patterns of inequity such as colonialism” that contribute to many regions’ vulnerability

• acdha 5y ago
  > Because I'm sure these people would somehow be worse off without the exposure to modern technology and civilization from colonialism... > This research should really stick to climate, harder to take it seriously when it comes with a side of woke propaganda. This ignorance is a great example of why this is needed: many of the mitigations are unaffordable for the countries worst affected and a poorer population has less reserve capacity to make cuts — as a simple example, a great way for Americans to reduce their carbon output would be to eat half as much beef, and while there'd be some whining nobody would be going hungry because of that. That's a big contrast to a country where long periods of colonial mismanagement followed by a haphazard return to local government means that most of the population is still highly sensitive to things like droughts, changes in insect / animal population, etc. Yes, plenty of that is due to local corruption and should be recognized as such but that's far from all of it and certainly doesn't mean that we should ignore that a lot of people are going to suffer from pollution our countries emitted. https://origin.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/co2-emissions-per-capita-in-selected-countries-and-regions-2000-2020 https://origin.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/co2-emissi...