Climate Change: We Must Solve Our Own Problems

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One Caribbean Nation.






Once more the images of a fractured Caribbean have emerged. Apparently, President Biden, has invited two Caribbean leaders, to a Climate Change conference.

The MCG does not engage in highlighting individual regional leaders, unless we deem it central to the point we are trying to make.  While we cannot tell Biden or any other country’s leader whom to extend invitations, we are of the view, that CARICOM as a regional force, must start to assert its independence, in matters relating to climate change, poverty, hunger and other maladies affecting the region and the world.

Our failure to act as one body with one voice, is sending a message to our citizens, that we can be pushed around by those who control global politics, wealth, and power.

Climate change is already wreaking havoc in the Caribbean. It is known that our coral reef, coast lines and water supply, are under tremendous threats. Biden and others cannot save us -we need to save ourselves. Rather than being elated when we are given invitations to the white house or being depressed, when we or not; we should be meeting in every regional capital, to find our own solutions.

Grandstanding and photo ops with the powerful, are not the solutions, to our climate change problems. Unite or perish!

 


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