Mia
Mottley, the PM of Barbados, is the person who presents glimmer of hope in an
exceedingly bleak world as it cruises towards the titanic iceberg of climate
flip and breakdown. We know we are heading for a head on, and the distance reduces
at an alarming rate as we keep assuring that it is still too far. Atleast the
passengers on the Titanic didn’t have to go through this agony of imminent disaster.
Ms. Mottley is an urgent and extremely articulate representor of vulnerable small nation
on the brink of the onslaught of climate breakdown. She is therefore relentless
and quite clearly passionately committed to seek solutions and unite for global
action. Her views therefore carry earnestness of practical solutions hence gets to the crux of the matter without any pretensions.
Climate finance is a matter that needs urgent attention to immediately initiate mitigative and adaptive measures. Her call for innovative source of finance, as also suggestions like making business class flying expensive, tax on stock and bond trade, $5 per ton
tax on fossil fuel emission so on are doable. Something modelling Tobin Tax is the need not
only as a climate finance but also reduce debilitating speculative trade. This is
also the occasion for innovative reparative justice (must be noted that Barbados
recently removed colonial feudal british system and declared itself a republic,
asserting dignity is beginning of nation building, shunning extractive systems
that nurture regressive mindset is foundation of a just society). Historical pollution
is an important space for framing justice, therefore the obligation for sustainable
technology transfer to poorer and vulnerable societies.
