"New Study: 300 Million Face Severe Risk of Climate-Fueled Coastal Flooding by 2050"-- Democracy NOW!

In the above video, Harjeet Singh, global lead on climate change for ActionAid, says "Let’s understand, the climate crisis and the social unrest in Chile or elsewhere have the same root cause: that’s inequality. Governments continue to prioritize corporations over the rights of people [ . . . .] And if you look at these historical resolutions, the United States is responsible for more than quarter, and another quarter of emissions come from European Union. That is the inequality. Yes, China is the biggest polluter at the moment, but historical emissions come largely from United States and European Union. And if you look at the emission reduction targets that they have put on the table from the United States, European Union and even Japan, it is one fifth of their fair share."

Benjamin Strauss, co-author of the [above] study in Nature Communications and CEO and chief scientist at Climate Central, adds "If I can find any silver lining in this—and it’s hardly one, but I will say that—just as the threat from sea level rise and coastal flooding turns out to be much greater than we thought it was——three times greater—the benefits of cutting climate pollution would also be three times greater."