Small islands like ours face an uncertain future. We can adapt – but climate finance that we badly need must be unlocked, says Mohamed Muizzu, president of the Maldives
While these policies aren’t nice and your assumptions might be right, it’s still a valid point that it’s unfair for people to suffer the consequences of other people’s actions.
In an ideal world everybody and everything would need to face the consequences of their own action. We don’t live in that world. So it’s not wrong to point out unfairness and fight for better solutions. Not being perfectly right yourself doesn’t take away the right to point out wrongness in others.
Now away from the ideal world into reality. In the (hopefully) long term the Maledives are doomed. And they aren’t alone. We screwed up the climate so much and we are still screwing up and haven’t even peaked our emmissions yet.
We need to accept the fact that life will get hard. We need to finally accept the fact that if we don’t overcome our differences, the human suffering will be absolutely brutal.
Unfortunately I am very pessimistic in this regard. Already and maybe since always human suffering gets ignored if it’s not your tribe. It seems like humans can’t overcome their tribe thinking. It seems like humans don’t improve on their hate and brutality against each others. And it seems that many humans aren’t able to feel sorry for human suffering if it’s far, far away.
The future looks bleak and we made it and still make it look that way.
While these policies aren’t nice and your assumptions might be right, it’s still a valid point that it’s unfair for people to suffer the consequences of other people’s actions.
In an ideal world everybody and everything would need to face the consequences of their own action. We don’t live in that world. So it’s not wrong to point out unfairness and fight for better solutions. Not being perfectly right yourself doesn’t take away the right to point out wrongness in others.
Now away from the ideal world into reality. In the (hopefully) long term the Maledives are doomed. And they aren’t alone. We screwed up the climate so much and we are still screwing up and haven’t even peaked our emmissions yet.
We need to accept the fact that life will get hard. We need to finally accept the fact that if we don’t overcome our differences, the human suffering will be absolutely brutal.
Unfortunately I am very pessimistic in this regard. Already and maybe since always human suffering gets ignored if it’s not your tribe. It seems like humans can’t overcome their tribe thinking. It seems like humans don’t improve on their hate and brutality against each others. And it seems that many humans aren’t able to feel sorry for human suffering if it’s far, far away.
The future looks bleak and we made it and still make it look that way.
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