Saleemul Huq
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/ 11 August 2004

Floods: Rich nations ‘must share the blame’

Cape Town is under water. So is Bangladesh. But Capetonians are relatively well off. In Bangladesh, millions of people have been displaced by water this year alone. With global warming a likely culprit, shouldn’t those who caused it pay their debt? The role of climate change — even if only partial — in helping to trigger recent floods increases the moral duty of rich nations to provide assistance.