The decision is kicking in the face the Western legal principle of the ‘presumption of innocence’ and that one is innocent until proven guilty. Burning fossil fuels is the globe’s biggest source of human-caused greenhouse gases and the primary cause of climate change. The Climate Change Secretariat sends officials to countless international conferences, but is powerless to, or ineffective at, influencing policy. When the UN Secretary General urges nations to have no more coal power plants by 2020, Sri Lanka coasts in the opposite direction. The connection between climate change and the extremes in weather experienced now is a result of climate change and we are doing nothing but intermittently, uselessly, treating the symptoms.

Source: Sunday Times September 28, 2019 19:41 UTC