Climate crisis and slavery are linked

WITH the talking shop of Cop26 behind us, now is the chance to put into action a plan to address one of the most important related factors – modern slavery.

The climate crisis has seriously affected the developing world and forced people to migrate, resulting in exploitation and human tracfficking. The environmental disaster has hit them hard.

Anti-Slavery International, which has been fighting slavery for 180 years, is calling for the third and developing world to be helped through this crisis. The poverty caused by drought, desertification and other repercussions of the climate crisis is certain to cause the most pernicious evil of all – slavery. We cannot stand by and let this happen.

We should be applying moral and physical pressure on government and the powers that be to lower global temperature increases as mush as posible. We must help our neighbours in other countries who are not in a position to help themselves.

In addition, Third World countries, themselves victims of our our industrialisation, need financial support and back-up to defend themselves. The foundations of their societies need nurturing so that they can adapt to changing circumstances.

Strengthening their communities is also a priority. They also need investment in green energy.

Exploitation on the scale of slavery must not be allowed, and if we do not help them then that is what will happen. They are our friends and the wealth is most certainly there to solve this problem. Tax the rich. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

Mr J Bucke Cefn Glas, Bridgend