S1 E8 - The Tuvalu Climate Hustle - Don't be conned

The Tenth Man

Tuvalu is the fourth smallest nation in the world but that doesn't mean they cannot exploit the climate change story. With their highest point just fifteen feet above sea level, the "climate doomers" have awarded victim status to the island nation, and its Prime Minister is speaking before the climate summit like an older Greta Thunberg.
His performance follows last year's speech from the ocean - a stunt worthy of a carnival act or furniture store ad - where the Foreign Affairs minister stood at a lectern knee-deep in the ocean, claiming the islands were sinking. (oops, that's not even how rising sea-levels work)
The problem with this scenario is that small islands have never been secure, there have always been storms and - just why does Tuvalu have a population boom?
Then there's all the money they already rake in. Without effort. From you.
Tuvalu is an island paradise and you're paying for it. Just like Greta Thunberg's schooner, they'd like to keep it going.

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