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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by\u00a0<\/strong>Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Extreme poverty and vulnerability to adverse weather will be a thing of the past, if everyone participates in exploitation of fossil fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate change is not just a problem of physics but a crisis of justice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friederike Otto<\/a>
Fri 18 Apr 2025 19.00 AEST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an exclusive extract from Friederike Otto\u2019s new book, she says climate disasters result from inequality as well as fossil fuel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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So how does weather become a disaster?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can\u2019t say exactly how the effects of climate change vary by location and type of weather, but what is absolutely clear is that the more people are in harm\u2019s way and the more vulnerable they are, the greater their risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For example, one of our studies from 2021 showed that the food insecurity linked to the drought in southern Madagascar was caused mainly by poverty, a lack of social structures, and heavy dependence on rainfall, but not by human-induced climate change. Nevertheless, just as with the Nigerian floods, international reports talked only of the weather and climate. The international media barely mentioned that, in fact, the local infrastructure, which had remained unfinished for decades, played a decisive role in the disastrous drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But it always proves true that the people who die are those with little money who can\u2019t readily obtain all the help and information they need. And that doesn\u2019t have to be the case, no matter where they are.

\u2026Read more:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/apr\/18\/climate-change-is-not-just-a-problem-of-physics-but-a-crisis-of-justice<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The above was taken from an excerpt of Frederike\u2019s book \u201cClimate Injustice\u201d<\/a>, which will be available from the 24th April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I left a fair bit out in the quotes above, most of the guardian book excerpt in my opinion is social justice gibberish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when you cut away the obligatory assertions of white male dominated climate science and complaints about colonial exploitation of the Global South, the central point seems clear. Weather disasters, climate driven or not, are mostly a problem for poor people. Rich societies can afford advance tornado and typhoon warnings, flood mitigation, rescue operations, fast personal transport on good roads, insurance, alternative accommodation and food imports to cover crops lost to adversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news is Africa is already addressing their poverty problem, by massively ramping up exploitation of fossil fuel resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Study: Africa’s Green Energy Transition “Unlikely”<\/a><\/blockquote>