Vanessa's story is one of the most heartbreaking ever had to report on. Shirel and Lauren as a parent thinking about having to let go one of your children or up to hold on or else the whole family might go under how do you deal with hearing that? The disparity between how the poor and how the rich experience climate change for this particular story Vanessa and her husband owned a business there were two buildings they could climb up and save themselvesEventually they did thankfully on top of the warehouse that they owned everything was gone and wiped away.
Twenty of the world’s richest countries – mostly in the Global North – are responsible for 80 percent of the carbon pollution that’s driving extreme weather and supercharging natural disasters. Yet poorer countries in the Global South are experiencing climate-induced disasters first and worst. Wealthier and whiter countries in the Global North are being hit by climate disruption as well, but they also have more resources to adapt. We talk with two award-winning journalists, one from each hemisphere, about covering climate change in their part of the world and bridging the disconnect that exists between North and South.
Guests:
Lauren Sommer, Reporter, NPR
Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Reporter for The Guardian, Host of An Impossible Choice.
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