Posted on 10/29/2025 8:39:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It has become a tired adage, but nonetheless true. The world’s poorest countries will suffer the most from climate change despite being least responsible for it.
Leaders in the Caribbean and from vulnerable island states around the world have been repeating this for years. And they have been asking the world’s rich countries, whose greenhouse gas emissions over generations have fueled warmer seas and bigger storms, to help them prepare.
With Hurricane Melissa scouring Jamaica with vicious intensity before setting its sights on Cuba and the Bahamas, it is likely that many of the affected countries will once again be overwhelmed by the expense of recovery.
In one of his first acts upon entering the White House, President Trump stopped the United States from contributing funding to help vulnerable countries prepare for the threats from global warming. Since then, the administration has dismantled virtually all of the foreign aid programs and offices that work with poor countries and others struggling to cope with disasters.
The Biden administration had sought to deliver roughly $3.1 billion in climate adaptation aid for 2023. But Mr. Trump, who has called climate change a hoax, rescinded those funds and stopped other efforts to help nations cope with the effects of global warming. Racquel Moses, who has family in Jamaica and who leads the Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator, a coalition of countries and companies investing in clean energy and resilience, spoke through tears about the challenges islands face in preparing for disasters. This storm, she said, could “reverberate through decades.”
She pointed out the importance of getting the right type of financial support, because many adaptation measures, like planting mangroves to protect against sea-level rise or elevating coastal roads, don’t have a direct way to generate revenue, making them less attractive to some investors.
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No words....LOL
The NYT is free to send all the cash they want.
The New York Times reportedly used 75,000 trees for a single Sunday edition in 2016. This equates to over 3.9 million trees per year for Sunday papers alone, or 500,000 trees per week for a major newspaper. So, nice try with your fake concern, journo hack.
Send birth control. Lots of it.
Sorry, but Bill Gates just confirmed that Climate Change isn’t that big a deal, and the NY Times has been promoting his expertise for years.
white savior complex
When you live on sub tropical island most of the time the weather is PRIMO but that same island is 3 feet above sea level and in the common track of hurricanes then it sucks. You pick your spot and you take your chance.
The shamelessness of this is astonishing.
Not a valid point. For years, decades, outfits that use loads of paper (News, YellowPages, Catalogs, etc) get 100% of their wood from farm raised trees.
Not scrap from lumber yards, hundreds of square miles of farmed trees raised exclusively for paper production. From the air they look like ginormous wheat fields.
I used to work for the YellowPages and was amazed how their tree farms were decades old — which makes sense since trees don’t grow as fast as grass.
From the article: “Leaders in the Caribbean and from vulnerable island states around the world have been repeating this for years. And they have been asking the world’s rich countries, whose greenhouse gas emissions over generations have fueled warmer seas and bigger storms, to help them prepare.”
No, those countries, with the aid of the UN, have been pushing climate change to justify transfering huge amounts of wealth from the rich countries to the smaller countries. All done through the UN, of course, which would siphon off a percentage. This would fulfil the UN dream of an independent source of wealth.
More BS.
I live on an island and I want to control the sea !
A lunatic.
All of this climate talk is a bunch of BS.
The NY Times is just using a the time honored leftist propaganda machine strategy of never letting a serious crisis go to waste.
The fact is that the frequency and severity of hurricanes have not diverged from historical trends.
It’s just that Jamaica was located in the right place at the right time in the path of the hurricane to take the brunt of the storm near it’s peak
Beaches I went to 50/60 years ago......yup. Still the same. Visited Carmel CA about five years ago. The beach looked the same as it did in 1954. Weird huh?
The natural physical state and appearance of earth is a big ball of sea water 7,500 feet deep with a mineral bottom. The land masses we see today are constantly rising out of the ocean due to upheaval caused by internal heat and by the movements it creates. All land which is not rising from the ocean is sinking back into the ocean, back to the earth’s natural state.
If you see land which is not being built up then you are looking at land which is sinking.
So trees on farms don’t consume CO2, only the ones in natural forests ?
Prepare for a future that can only be imagined with no basis in reality.
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