An editorial in the New York Times claims that the hurricane hitting the Bahamas is the fault of the United States for failing to pass AOC's "Green New Deal."
As bad as that is, the quote I hated most was found in the comments:
The word "reparations" has come up in the USA when addressing crimes of the past, and we have hardly reached consensus on that hot topic.
Dr. E. M. James's island nation, which, as the author accurately puts, "has a tiny carbon footprint but carries the burden of being ground zero for our climate crisis."
Time for present day reparations paid in full for these islanders from the CO2 giants with carbon footprints without boundaries.
Tiny carbon footprint?!? What about all the planes and ships that arrive everyday that provide the tourists that keep the Bahamas going? I mean, I guess we could just stop those.
ReplyDeleteTime for present day reparations paid in full for these islanders from the CO2 giants with carbon footprints without boundaries.
ReplyDeleteSo the commenter means China and India should pay for it, they're just too stupid to deal with numbers.
Not to mention the specious idea that rising sea levels have anything to do with CO2. Sea levels have been rising since the end of the last ice age, and if they were going down that would be a warning sign of an impending ice age.