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Pacific Islanders' resilience praise called excuse for climate inaction
Original: # PacificNations Praising Pacific Islanders for being strong and resilient while continuing to expand fossil fuels becom
Pacific Nations are being criticised for praising Pacific Islanders as strong and resilient while simultaneously expanding fossil fuels. Critics argue this rhetoric has become a moral excuse for inaction, delaying promised climate finance and leaving Pacific communities to bear the consequences of an atmospheric crisis they contributed little to. The charge is that flattering language about resilience substitutes for real emissions cuts and financial support.
Why now: Growing anger that compliments about island resilience are being used to justify fossil fuel expansion and delayed climate finance.
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