Nature doesn’t care about your climate conference speech

Nepal is drowning in a multi-billion-dollar adaptation gap while wealthy nations offer up endless cycles of sympathy.

The Earth is warming at an alarming rate, and glaciers are retreating. Somewhere in the developed world, policymakers are still busy calculating GDP growth, energy demand and economic returns. In Nepal, a country of around 30 million people that accounted for roughly 0.01 percent of global fossil-fuel and industrial carbon dioxide emissions, communities are weeping and picking through the debris left behind by a climate crisis they did not create.