Eric Worrall's paper
“…The only word I can use to describe it is cruel.
Worry about Pacific climate change “not on the agenda”
Donald Trump has 90 days of stuttering on all USAID funds, putting the industry in chaos. When managers evaluate which programs are considered appropriate funding, it is clear that one area does not fit this brief: climate change. This is also the biggest problem in the Pacific region.
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“I was shocked. Well, I shouldn't say shocked because we knew Donald Trump would do radical things. So, in that respect, he actually did it, and when we see the scale and speed of the pause, that's the real shocking thing, that's the real shocking thing. The only thing I can use to describe it as a cruel life.
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Thousands of people are unemployedexperts say many people will die.
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These programs help communities adapt to changes in extreme weather through education and training.
Residents are recommended Skills, including Which crops grow This can withstand extreme weather, how to develop a family’s disaster preparation plan and improve water and food collection and preservation.
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Read more: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/rnf-fears-pacific-cacific-cacific-climate-change-change-not-on-the-the-agenda-for-us-aid-funding/1scjuhlyh
Can you imagine what better than a group of funded Western bureaucrats in our country to try to tell surviving farmers how these farmers work for dozens of land, perhaps hundreds of generations, how to cultivate? These people are as connected as the land, and their survival depends very much on the accumulated knowledge and skills over thousands of years.
One of our close family and friends is a Pacific Islander who grew up in an island agricultural community. “Green Thumb” doesn't cover her profound understanding of tropical gardening.
What will happen to those who are unemployed recently is an interesting question.
I suspect anyone will die, it's just an alarm. My guess is that foreigners without funds will leave immediately or when their money runs out. The indigenous people they once hired may restore agriculture. After all, their already strong indigenous skills are allegedly enriched by all this foreign expertise and hopefully they have saved some of the money they have paid. They should be a very successful farmer well.
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