Now countries such as Antigua and Barbuda, and Dominica, are expected to keep paying debts while struggling to rebuild. This fundamentally unjust measure places the financial burden of climate impacts on people who have done the least to cause the problem of climate change, while ensuring that creditors keep being paid in the event of climate disasters. Instead, debt cancellation is needed to make debts sustainable, and all assistance to adapt to – and rebuild from – climate disasters must be in the form of grants, not loans. Moreover, May has no qualms in leaving future generations with the burden of guarding spent nuclear fuel for hundreds of years. Ian TyshWealden Green party, East Sussex• Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com• Read more Guardian letters – click here to visit gu.com/letters

Source: The Guardian December 17, 2017 18:44 UTC