Global Warming Effects Those Who Contribute to it the Least

This article was definitely powerful to read. Especially when I read about how Tajikistan's "people emit less than 1 tonne of carbon dioxide per head, compared to nearly 20 tons by citizens of North America." Yet they are carrying the the brunt of the burden of Global Warming. Tajikistan is a country with an agriculturally based economy, and the 2-4 degree temperature rise effects these kinds of people the most severely. In the united states we have a lot of the technology to at least temporarily cope with these kinds of problems, but in agronomic nations it's not easy to have access to these technologies for financial reasons and especially when the weather is disrupting your source of income. Its just not fair that these people have to pay the consequences for our mistakes/ignorance/insensitivity half way across the world.
The weather is really important. I remember a conversation I had with someone when I went to Mexico who was telling me how these pathetic guys were going to try to pick me up by talking about the weather, and how stupid that was because the weather is always "beautiful." Of course this person meant it in a different way.... and I still think that's a dumb way to pick someone up....... hmmm it depends on how you're talking about it....
The weather is important to talk about because it affects people's survival. In an industrial and developed context we undermine it because we are so detached from our sources of life. And now that we have affected it so drastically we need to be thinking about it all the time because its affecting us.
We have to start adapting. We need a sense of urgency. We don't have that sense, at least it doesn't seem so among the people I mostly know. I think apathy and self insignificance is the new international pandemic.
I really liked some of the ideas the article mentioned. I love passive solar thermal control. I feel like it was using a lot of principles of permaculture. Permaculture is great because its all about being self sufficient and using principles of nature for growth.
I didn't completely understand the parts about money being put into global warming because I don't know how much government money is put into other things. I would like something to compare it with.
The part about the glaciers melting reminded me of time I spent trying to do some volunteer work in a town near Cuzco. I was supposed to be installing clean burning stoves in rural communities and helping to make water filters. Then I found out from one of the volunteers that the glacier supplying water to the community was expected to melt in 5 years. Definitely made my work seem futile, but people need to think about the big picture as well as the little picture.
I wish we could all just start over, but thats kind of impossible, we have to find a solution that goes with what we have and move on towards different ways from there.
Good luck world!