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.[ATTACH=full]5248[/ATTACH].All together, now.....IT WAS LAZY, FUCKIN' REPUBLICANS, ALRIGHT!!!!. July 6, 2023."As the world’s wealthiest countries continue to avoid making serious financial commitments to developing states on the front lines of the climate crisis, declassified records published today by the National Security Archive document more than 50 years of U.S. resistance to environmental compensation measures. Among the highlights is a Nixon-era intelligence report noting “increasing African militancy on development matters” and predicting that “views linking environment and development will be with us in the years to come.”Often seen as an idea that formed in the early 1990s, documents posted today demonstrate that calls by developing nations for environmental liability—and U.S. opposition to those proposals—began nearly 20 years earlier in 1972. These records shed light on the various ways that the U.S. government has tried to avoid getting what President George H. W. Bush called a “big bill” for its environmental impacts in talks about compensation, liability, and reparations programs meant to alleviate the impacts of climate change.".
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All together, now.....IT WAS LAZY, FUCKIN' REPUBLICANS, ALRIGHT!!!!
July 6, 2023
"As the world’s wealthiest countries continue to avoid making serious financial commitments to developing states on the front lines of the climate crisis, declassified records published today by the National Security Archive document more than 50 years of U.S. resistance to environmental compensation measures. Among the highlights is a Nixon-era intelligence report noting “increasing African militancy on development matters” and predicting that “views linking environment and development will be with us in the years to come.”
Often seen as an idea that formed in the early 1990s, documents posted today demonstrate that calls by developing nations for environmental liability—and U.S. opposition to those proposals—began nearly 20 years earlier in 1972. These records shed light on the various ways that the U.S. government has tried to avoid getting what President George H. W. Bush called a “big bill” for its environmental impacts in talks about compensation, liability, and reparations programs meant to alleviate the impacts of climate change."
