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[–] grue@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Please understand that I am making an extreme effort to be charitable and polite when I say that trying to spin this tiny quota as being somehow for the benefit of the Tuvaluans themselves is... less than persuasive.

Frankly, we're already at 1 degree C warming today and Tuvalu is 100% doomed. Forcing many of them to wait until the bitter end -- paternalistically imposing that decision on them rather than allowing them to decide what's best for themselves -- is hardly doing them any sort of favor!

But hey, maybe I'm wrong: maybe the Tuvaluan leaders themselves asked for this quota, not the Australians. I don't believe that for a fucking microsecond, but if you can cite something that supports the notion then I'll reconsider how I've judged you for posting the... comment... you just wrote.