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USA Today: Poor nations want U.S. to pay reparations for extreme weather
Poorer nations suffering from extreme weather disasters, so much so that their citizens are seeking refuge in safer terrains outside their borders, want rich nations like the United States to pay for reparations and to relocate populations.
Preparatory talks ahead of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change to be held in Paris in December has representatives from developing nations asking for more than an already agreed upon $100 billion per year for climate change mitigation measures. They want additional compensation for weather-related disasters as well as a "displacement coordination facility" for refugees. And they want all this to be legally binding as part of the larger anticipated Paris accord.
WNU Editor: In my many travels around the world I have seen how poor countries go about destroying their environment .... and without any assistance from wealthier nations or "climate change". My biggest beef has always been deforestation, where because of poverty trees are cut down for firewood and heat but are not replaced with new trees for future generations. This action alone has caused an unbelievable amount of destruction .... and yes .... it has severely impacted their environment. The idea that we should now subsidized these nations for the poor decisions that they have made .... I doubt that the tax payers in the West are going to accept that .... but I also know that even if the nations of the West do give a hundred billion .... or even a trillion dollars to these nations .... it is not going to change anything. They will be doing what they have been doing for decades, the only difference is that we will be subsidizing them in doing it. If we do want to have a positive impact .... spend money on planting trees .... it will be far cheaper and we will not need massive international bureaucracies to plan and calculate how to distribute wealth or who gets what.
Update: Here is some information on REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation).
2 comments:
Let a dopey politician like Al Gore propose it.
Then we shall know them.
As Dominican i seen first hand this issue in Haiti, where they have destroyed their forest and when there is nothing left they just migrate to my country. And are doing the same thing to the areas nearby the borders.. while claiming that Dominicans should help them since our alredy damaged economy is slightly better than their own.
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