If the United Nations is right then our assignment to southern Madagascar’s drought zone was something of a guilt trip.
The UN claims this area is facing the world’s first climate change famine. If that’s accurate then we, as westerners, are more to blame for the crisis than the people who call this home.
After all, their contribution to the build up of greenhouse gases has been next to nothing. And yet they are the ones struggling to survive after more than three years of drought that may well have been caused by the burning of fossil fuels elsewhere.
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