‘Not conducive to our survival’: Pacific islands on the climate frontline respond to Cop28 deal

Humans existed for several hundred thousand years. We went from gatherers and hunters to farmers, developed technology, had countless revolutions. In the 21 century we praise ourselves for being democrats, believe in the rule of law, we are pro human rights. We left the dark ages behind us, we believe.

In reality human lives, especially when poor and weak, are still treated as they were worth less than some paper that we colored.