Ulrich Beck denounces the injustice of climate change

The German sociologist Ulrich Beck insists on the iniquity of global warming consequences. "We do not share the risk of climate catastrophe as a result of a common past and in the same way the future will not be identical for all of us. A flourishing agriculture may well develop in Alaska. We may lounge around in bikinis in Munich and New York for Christmas. But what is going to happen in Africa and in the Middle-East? The richest countries, those that contribute the most to global warming and thus endanger the poorest, are investing billions of dollars and euros in their own protection from the worst possible consequences such as drought and rising sea-levels. ... Like the Titanic, climate catastrophe is not democratic: the majority of victims in the shipwreck were trapped in the cheapest cabins, those at the bottom, the ones without any way out."

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