Posted on 01/09/2017 2:04:32 PM PST by PROCON
TSIHOMBE, Madagascar — She is just a frightened mom, worrying if her son will survive, and certainly not fretting about American politics — for she has never heard of either President Obama or Donald Trump.
What about America itself? Ranomasy, who lives in an isolated village on this island of Madagascar off southern Africa, shakes her head. It doesn’t ring any bells.
Yet we Americans may be inadvertently killing her infant son. Climate change, disproportionately caused by carbon emissions from America, seems to be behind a severe drought that has led crops to wilt across seven countries in southern Africa. The result is acute malnutrition for 1.3 million children in the region, the United Nations says.
Trump has repeatedly mocked climate change, once even calling it a hoax fabricated by China. But climate change here is as tangible as its victims. Trump should come and feel these children’s ribs and watch them struggle for life. It’s true that the links between our carbon emissions and any particular drought are convoluted, but over all, climate change is as palpable as a wizened, glassy-eyed child dying of starvation. Like Ranomasy’s 18-month-old son, Tsapasoa.
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Nicholas Kristof is the Walter Duranty of his time.
Sounds to me that Obama killed the poor lad, given the fake-news as presented by the author.
What may be killing her son is she has too many kids for what she can provide for. Where’s the father/s? Smells just like the welfare mothers in the US with their hands out.
Never mind it’s summer there. Duuuuuh, rivers get low in the summer. It’s called change of seasons. Blame Mother Earth for tilting.
When has there not been a drought in Africa? Warning, strong language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA
"Seems to be," huh? This author "seems to be" a goat-blowing baby-eating coprophile.
I suspect Madagascar had droughts long before there was an America to blame.
“How does carbon emission from the US reach Madagascar”
How ignorant can you get?
Obviously, when our pollution reaches China, they reverse engineer it, mass produce it, and ship it to Africa by the boatloads.
Duh.
“seems to be.”
And it doesn’t “seem to be” that the natives have stripped bare every single resource on those islands?
They make me rethink my gun control position.
We need to keep guns away from them.
This article is the reason every American should own several guns.
These lunatics will eventually resort to force to get their way.
When someone dies of climate change, it stands to reason that their death certificate would reveal this as the cause of death, right?
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