Why We Need To Start Assigning Blame for Climate Change
It’s time for a new age of accountability
Few ordinary people anticipated that the forecasted rainfall in Spain’s Valencia region would escalate into one of the most devastating flash floods in Europe’s modern era. But, unfortunately, it did.
As of now, the death toll stands at 214 and is likely to climb higher as many remain missing, displaced, or are critically injured. Those who survived described the event as ‘a nightmare’ and ‘worse’ than the ‘tsunami movie.’
The most tragic part? People were only properly warned as it was happening. In Paiporta, where at least 62 lost their lives, the official alerts came after the worst had already happened. But warnings alone, even if timely, aren’t enough either. Most recently, we saw this happen in the US, where two powerful hurricanes, Helene and Milton, took hundreds of lives and inflicted billions of dollars in damages. Some people didn’t evacuate because they couldn’t. But some because they believed they could handle the crisis.
It seems like a considerable number of people here, in the Global North, still haven’t grasped the severity of the climate crisis, viewing it as a remote danger impacting only poor people somewhere far, far away. Meanwhile, our government officials and, to some extent, the…
