Why climate change is a threat to human rights - Mary Robinson
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Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended — and their human rights threatened — by killer storms, starvation and the loss of their own lands. Mary Robinson asks us to join the movement for worldwide climate justice.
Discuss the challenges faced by leaders like President Tong of Kiribati due to climate change. How do these challenges differ from those faced by leaders of more developed countries?
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