Not our problem

Should we be bailing out Pacific islanders whose ancestors chose to settle on a piece of mid-ocean land that’s just above the high tide mark?
    Of course not. If they’re blaming their plight on climate change rather than ancestral stupidity, they should be presenting a bill to India, China and all the rest of the major carbon dioxide emitters, and we should just switch the lights off and pretend to be out if they come round rattling a collecting tin.