UN Warns 900 Million Poor Face Climate Shocks, Corporate Polluters Unfazed
Al-Monitor reports the UN's grim warning: nearly 900 million of the world’s poorest face a 'double and deeply unequal burden' from climate shocks. This urgent plea for empathy conveniently sidesteps who's manufacturing that unequal burden. While the UNDP's Haoliang Xu points to droughts and floods, he – and most mainstream outlets – remain silent on the multi-billion dollar fossil fuel subsidies
still flowing globally, often from the very nations lecturing the poor on 'sustainability.' (Source: Al-Monitor, 'Nearly 900 mn poor people exposed to climate shocks, UN warns') Instead of addressing corporate impunity, these reports often frame climate change as a natural disaster, not a man-made, policy-enabled crisis. One might wonder why the UN isn't warning about the 'double and deeply
unequal burden' of endless war, which is a significant carbon emitter, or the resource grabs—often by Western corporations—that leave these 900 million with nothing to fall back on. It's a stark reminder that 'global warming' is rarely tied to 'global exploitation' in polite media circles.