April 8, 2022
The world is getting hotter, so says the United Nations, as a result of human action that was ten times more than it was 20 years ago. So since we began talking about climate change in seriousness, human action has ratcheted up the temperature significantly.
But that is not the only depressing part, inactivity in enacting legislation to deal with the problem in the Caribbean and Central American region to encourage more environmentally friendly enterprises to help mitigate against the climate fall out.
The matter is not just about governance, but also with encouraging developing states like ourselves to not even indulge in climate unfriendly practices. The United Nations said that the growth in carbon emissions from human action in developing states also increased significantly in the past 10 years. But as we understand from the last Caribbean Development Bank Catastrophic Conference, there are policy gaps in the environmental and social governance structures.
We are our own worst enemies at times. We cannot dismiss our own development agency built just for us as easily as we can dismiss the World Bank or even the Inter-American Development Bank because they are somewhat distant to us. But they are all singing from the same hymn sheet with the same song to a large degree.
The policy discussion within the region itself needs to be taken seriously, despite very little we would be able to do in terms of turning the notches back the way a United States or China could do. But we still have to add input.
Hurricane season will be here this June again. In case you have not noticed, every year the hurricanes get worse. WE are not even having increased activity with earthquakes now as we thought it was only in Haiti where we had them, but not earthquakes off the coast of the US Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, St Vincent and the Grenadines and even Jamaica.