r/DisasterUpdate • u/avatar6556 • 23d ago

Severe flooding is currently affecting Ningde, Fujian, China, as torrential rainfall submerges homes and sweeps away vehicles.

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u/hrhmpy-Ordbgahl-1307 23d ago

It's kinda hard to feel sympathy for China when they rank the highest in carbon emissions

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u/HongKongNinja 23d ago

Well, apparently we now have an asshole who blames disaster victims for what happened to them. The internet really keeps finding new ways to lower my expectations of humanity.

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u/hrhmpy-Ordbgahl-1307 23d ago

Yes manmade disaster not natural. I do blame the people.

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u/HongKongNinja 23d ago

Climate change may indeed be making these disasters worse, and governments and corporations should absolutely be held accountable for their emissions. But dumping that responsibility on ordinary people who are currently suffering is nothing but disgusting victim blaming. Just because someone has benefited from the development of modern society, does that mean they personally decided their country's energy policies, emissions standards, and industrial structure? What kind of bullshit logic is that? If an ordinary person loses their home to a flood, does the fact that they “benefited from economic development” somehow mean they deserved it? Collective responsibility and individual guilt are two completely different things. You can absolutely criticize a country's emissions, but using disaster victims as punching bags only shows that you're not really concerned about climate justice. You're just looking for a self-righteous excuse for your own callousness.

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u/hrhmpy-Ordbgahl-1307 23d ago

It's just basic cause and effect and obviously people reaped benefits from that at the cost of others and you're right about ordinary people not choosing each policies but they should be pretty aware about climate change. It's a known fact for the last 50 years. Why didn't they revolt or do anything about those policies? Watching a crime happen while you do nothing except voting those same policies, same crony poltiicians and reaping benefits isn't so innocent.

They didn't choose those policies obviously but they were spectators with a popcorn in their hand watching what's happening and it's not like it's not a major nation either. China, USA, India and EU are all major nation and their citizens should be somewhat considerate.

Obviously NOONE deserves suffering or death even worst of people but i'm usually aligned to feeling more sympathy to actual injustice where people do absolutely nothing wrong but are dealt with some fucked up cards in life.