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pic adapted from Hurricane Melissa via Wikimedia Commons

Hurricane Melissa Ripped off Jamaica’s Tourism Mask and Exposed its Climate Vulnerability.

Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica, but the real storm began long before the winds smashed ashore. Jamaica's predicament was predictable due to a world order that allows the rich to pollute while the poor suffer its consequences. Jamaica’s pain is a mirror for the hypocrisy of global climate politics: billion-dollar promises unmet, “loss and damage” funds delayed, and small island nations forced to pay premiums for survival. Melissa should wake us up, not just to the power of nature, but to the injustice of a system that protects profit over people.