“How do I justify to voters taking away subsidies, school funding and health care to build a waste-processing plant or a big sea wall?” asks a finance minister. “In 20 years of course it will be useful, but it is the cost now that is concerning.”
The justification for lack of climate action in a sentence. No one wants to forego now, for a better experience in the future.
Call me crazy, but I would say that new schools and hospitals also improve the experience in the future. The issue is that the poorest countries really need to do all of it schools, health care, infrastructure and going green, but they can not afford it, so they have to make really hard choices.
For rich countries that is much less of a problem. For a normal Frenchmen $1000 less per year means no vactaion, to a normal Zambian it means starvation.
The justification for lack of climate action in a sentence. No one wants to forego now, for a better experience in the future.
Call me crazy, but I would say that new schools and hospitals also improve the experience in the future. The issue is that the poorest countries really need to do all of it schools, health care, infrastructure and going green, but they can not afford it, so they have to make really hard choices. For rich countries that is much less of a problem. For a normal Frenchmen $1000 less per year means no vactaion, to a normal Zambian it means starvation.