'A week that may change the world'
The above titled article was published in your Op-Ed page on September 27. There is no question that climate change is an important issue. Across the world, people are suffering due to the effects of these changes. Yet aid agencies are unable to secure sufficient funds to help them because, of the one billion dollars spent globally every day on climate finance, only 6% goes to helping vulnerable people adapt to climate change today. The rest is spent on efforts to arrest such climate phenomena as might happen in the distant future. This is immoral; effectively valuing the lives of people yet to be born more than those in need today.
By promoting the scientifically unfounded belief that we can control the climate of earth merely by regulating our carbon dioxide emissions, Saleemul Huq, well-meaning and knowledgeable though he undoubtedly is, is unwittingly encouraging the continuation of this scandal, one of the greatest ethical tragedies of our time.
Tom Harris
Executive Director
International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC)
Ottawa, Ontario
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