Madagascar Needs Climate Justice Now

July 6, 2021

Dear President Biden,

In Madagascar, over a million people face starvation due a climate crisis they did nothing to create. 

According to David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Program:

“There have been back-to-back droughts in Madagascar which have pushed communities right to the very edge of starvation. Families are suffering and people are already dying from severe hunger. This is not because of war or conflict, this is because of climate change. 

“This is an area of the world that has contributed nothing to climate change, but now, they’re the ones paying the highest price. This is enough to bring even the most hardened humanitarian to tears.”

The United States, with just 4% of the world’s people, is the source of 26% of the CO2 driving global warming. The entire African continent, with 17% of the world’s people, produced less than 3% of that CO2.

The humanitarian disaster in Madagascar is a direct result of the climate chaos industrialized countries have unleashed. America’s 420 gigatons of CO2, half of it emitted in the last four decades, make it uniquely responsible.

America’s response must be proportionately generous.

As Beasley told CNN,

“We’re literally watching children dying before our very own eyes, and while we need a short-term emergency response we’ve got to do resilience programs and water harvesting…these people can thrive and survive if we give them the support they need and they’re not getting that support. The international community has a moral obligation to step up and help these innocent victims of climate change right NOW.”

The United States can end the suffering in Madagascar, and help these communities heal, adapt and develop resilience, for less than it spends on the military in one day. President Biden, we urge you to provide those resources without  delay. 

Sincerely,

Paul Schaafsma
Founder
Climate Justice for Africa

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28 Comments

  1. This letter must be considered at the highest degree, we can’t stay inactif after viewing a video like that . Otherwise it’s lack of love and compassion …

  2. We should hold fossil fuel companies responsible. They should help save Madagascar

    • Their assets would have to be seized to make it happen. This industry has been knowingly digging humanity’s grave for decades. I agree entirely with you that they should pay, however.

  3. Please see http://www.wdcpower.com for generating TeraWatts of clean energy in Madagascar, US, India, Canada and the world. Kindly help to reduce pollution, heat, hunger, thirst and Waste of time.

  4. This is beautifully written and quite powerful. I will forward it to others. Thank you!

  5. Please help the people of Madagascar President Biden. They are starving. We are responsible as a nation to help our neighbors.

  6. If it’s profitable to exploit and destroy the problem is the economics. We need strong laws to end racism and ecocide.

  7. Madagascan People Are Starving Ànd In A Decimating Emergency, They Need Help Now.

  8. Refusing to act on climate change is no longer just a moral failing, it’s genocidal. People are dying and it’s completely unnecessary.

  9. Helping people gain water sustainability leads to them helping themselves. This is aid that benefits all humanity.

  10. This is indeed a very urgent appeal and calls for urgent action. I will share to my network

  11. This is indeed a very serious appeal and calls for urgent action. I will share to my network

  12. This is very kind of you Paul, It indeed needs a serious attention.
    In Uganda we are blessed to be working with you sir.

  13. This require high power intervention to mitigate further humanitarian crisis, integrate environmental, economic and social components of sustainable development, and its positive impacts on poverty reduction program especially developing countries.

  14. This needs more human empowerement to enhance environmental and economical initiative towards social development as it gears on African poverty eradication

  15. If the people of Madagascar can be helped, then it will be a great push for the intervention to mitigate further humanitarian crisis.

  16. Climate change knows no bounds and the statistic is scary seeing a singular country the United States of America contributing up to 26% of the global emission, putting other countries and especially Africa continent at the tipping point of total collapse due to climate change. Let’s treat climate change as an emergency because it requires no delayed response.

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