Who is most affected by climate change and who should tackle it? - BBC News

Many of the countries worst affected by climate change have contributed least to the emissions that cause it.

So where should the burden lie in taking action to counter it?

Reality Check's Chris Morris takes a look at some of the big questions at the heart of climate justice.

#ClimateChange #Environment #BBCNews

[coolcat]

The elite are responsible we suffer from their greed

[richard]

The planet isn't going anywhere - we are!

[thomasallein]

Junk science rules, especially if politics gets involved.

[sagardahiya]

Fun Fact : India historical contribution to greenhouse emission is just 4 percent.
Also the current per capita emissions are 3 times lower than world average while that of a US CITIZEN is 3 times higher than world average

[eliasl]

I’m not them, I don’t care. I have more important and imminent stuff to deal with.

[alienfish]

Well the garbage solutions to it are only affecting the working class. Massive wealth transfer from the poor to the rich.

[silviashefa]

Whom Can We Trust If No One Is Trustworthy?
One of my favorite quips from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is when Tom is defined as “a glittering hero…the pet of the old, the envy of the young, ” and there were “some that believed that he would be President, yet, if he escaped hanging.” With these few words, Twain captured the essence of leadership in our world. Those who get to the top are the fiercest, most determined, and most ruthless. Today, the latter quality has become so intense that we can no longer believe our leaders, and certainly not trust them to have our best interest in mind.
I am not accusing any leader in particular, or even leaders as a whole. It is simply that in an egoistic world, where people vie to topple one another on their way to the top, the one at the top is clearly the one who trampled over and knocked down more people than anyone else. Concisely, to get to the top in an egoistic world you have to be the biggest egoist.
So how do we know whom to trust? We don’t know and we cannot know. All we know is that we are in the dark.
In a culture of unhinged selfishness, any conspiracy theory seems reasonable, while truth is nowhere to be found. When every person who says or writes something is trying to promote some hidden agenda, you have no way of knowing who is right, what really happened, or if anything happened at all.
The only way to get some clarity in the news and goodwill from our leaders is to say “Enough!” to our current system and build something entirely independent. The guiding principle of such a system should be “information only, ” no commentary. Commentary means that information has already been skewed. Information means saying only what happened, as much as possible, not why, and not who is to blame and who we should praise.
Concurrently, we must begin a comprehensive process of self-teaching. We have to know not only what is happening, but why we skew and distort everything. In other words, we have to know about human nature and how it inherently presents matters according to its own subjective view, which caters to one’s own interest. To “clear” ourselves from that deformity, we must learn how to rise above our personal interest and develop an equally favorable attitude toward others. This is our only guarantee that our interpretation of things will be even and correct.
Once we achieve such an attitude, we will discover that the bad things we see in our world reflect our own, internal wickedness. Our ill-will toward others creates a world where ill-will governs, and so the world is filled with wickedness and cruelty. Therefore, all we need in order to create positive leadership—and to generally eliminate ill-will from the world—is to generate goodwill within us. When we nurture goodwill toward others, we will fill the world with goodwill. As a result, the world will fill with kindness and compassion. By changing ourselves, we will create a world that is opposite from the world we have created through our desires to govern, patronize, and often destroy other people.

[lawrenceanthony]

I'm Stepping over corpses daily on my way to work because of climate change here in the UK 🇬🇧 and the whole experience has just been truly heartbreaking and horrifying 💔😪

[Maxinfamilyy]

The industry is barely mentioned... It is not the people with their daily activies who needs to change, but the companies. We NEED to help, and we will, but we are not who we need to draw attention to...

[anthonymatthew]

I'm still waiting for that Ice age Times magazine reported in 1977??? I'm confused

[billyellis]

I wish the temperature would rise in Scotland Lol

[markgoddard]

Who is most affected by climate change and who should do something. Ans: all of us. And government should do something. Pretty simple, even for the BBC.

[savannahmiddlefield]

Who is most responsible?
Consumers. Period. It does not matter where is made.

[anitambm.]

हर खानदान में एक कोई होता है जो गरीबी रेखा को तोड़ कर आगे चला जाता है भगवान करे दोस्तों आपके खानदान में शुरूआत आप सभी करें

[toekkababy]

100 billion dollar a year for corrupt country's

[wm]

Africa and Asia are responsible - look at demographics and all the pollution facts.

[QwadLuzr]

If the west should compensate the "Global south" for our industrial development, do we get some money back for medicine, technology, human progress, education, rights, etc?

[Bleach]

Nobody, another fine propaganda piece by the BBC

[XXcal.]

The governments and industries seriously need to make a change. They're not even 10% of the population and are responsible for over 90% of the pollution, I'm making my part to have a more sustainable life but it's worth nothing while the big ones keep still.

[theoilandgasresourceportal]

No mention of over-population?
I forgot that would involve confronting religion, culture and big business