Published 2 December 2021 at 20.24
Abroad. The UN stated that the famine in Madagascar was due to the “climate”. But now a research group states that so-called climate change has nothing to do with the matter.
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In June, the UN published a statement on its website that thousands of families in southern Magadaskar risked starvation due to “climate change”.
– Although this part of the world has not contributed something to climate change, they have to pay the highest price, said David Beasley of the World Food Program, WFP.
The country's president Andry Rajoelin has also taken the opportunity to blame the country's problems on climate change caused by the rich part of the world.
– My countrymen are paying the price for a climate crisis they did not create, he said in November, according to Expressen.
But a research network now states that the drought was not caused by anyone at all global warming. The researchers point out that the problem is instead poverty, poor infrastructure and rain-dependent agriculture in combination with natural climate variations, writes the newspaper.
Friederike Otto at the University of Oxford's Climate Change Institute says that the new research results are in line with previous studies and that is “surprising” that the UN pointed out the climate as the culprit in the drama.
– It is really important not to automatically assume that everything bad that happens is due to climate change, because it is not true, says Friederike Otto to AFP.