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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLeaked Memo Reveals U.S. Plan to Oppose Helping Poor Nations Adapt to Climate Change
http://www.nationofchange.org/leaked-memo-reveals-us-plan-oppose-helping-poor-nations-adapt-climate-change-1384878965Newly leaked documents have revealed how U.S. negotiators at the U.N. climate summit in Warsaw are opposing efforts to help developing countries adapt to climate change. According to an internal U.S. briefing memo seen by Democracy Now!, the U.S. delegation is worried the talks in Warsaw will "focus increasingly on blame and liability" and that poor nations will be "seeking redress for climate damages from sea level rise, droughts, powerful storms and other adverse impacts." We speak with Nitin Sethi, a journalist with The Hindu newspaper who first reported on the leaked document.
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Leaked Memo Reveals U.S. Plan to Oppose Helping Poor Nations Adapt to Climate Change (Original Post)
eridani
Nov 2013
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KT2000
(20,586 posts)1. the US will put up more fences
there will be migration and it will be dealt with as we are the immigration issue - paramilitary groups patrolling the border etc. Homeland Security was likely enhanced with this in mind.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)2. My God we are an evil country
I am embarrassed to be an American
on point
(2,506 posts)3. And well they should. Put the market price in climate change for a market based solution
If the oil and gas companies won't go with carbon taxes or other market based solutions, then damages against the polluters are in order and those governments should have to pay - which of course means higher taxes to pay for it, which those societies will have to begin change.