‘Rich white men’ - Senator’s blame game over Nepal floods 😳

0:00Nepal's foreign minister is demanding that the world's biggest polluters pay his country up to $20 million. Cheshire Canal says the world's biggest economies need to step up and help Nepal rebuild and climate change is at the centre of this conversation because Nepal contributes less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Their neighbours, India and China are among the biggest emitters on the planet. The United Nations says Nepal's mountains have lost close to a third of their ice in 30 years. The Nepalese government says the recent flooding and landslides are more extreme than usual. And the foreign ministers told the Guardian, we've contributed so little to climate change, it's important for those who benefit from more polluting economies to accept a shared responsibility. He says this affects all of humanity. And have a listen to the green senator, Marine Faroukhi, she's now brought skin colour

1:01into the conversation. And she singled out white male billionaires. While billionaire lists dominated by white men, get richer and richer and protect themselves from the worst consequences of climate breakdown, black and brown communities across the global south are being flooded, burned, displaced, starved and buried. And the world looks away. How do we unpack all of that? Marine Faroukhi says billionaire lists dominated by white men protect themselves from the worst consequences of climate breakdown, while black and brown communities are being flooded, burned and starved and buried. And the world looks away. Well look, first of all, the world is not looking away. While Nepal is suffering, Australia certainly isn't. The tragedy has been prominent in the national conversation ever since it happened. And Australia has sent help with coordinated underground rescue experts and other first responders and technical experts too. And what does skin colour got to do with a natural disaster? For the record, landslides have been happening in Nepal for centuries. The biggest

2:06example we're aware of happened about 800 years ago. And researchers estimate it was around 1000 times larger than the recent landslide. And if emissions have played a role, why are white billionaires the ones to blame? Are the big emitters in nearby India, white billionaires? And are the coal plants in China run by white billionaires too?