Struggling global covid-19 response dims hopes for climate change action

Although rich countries have been hit hard this summer, poorer nations are often the hardest hit. In southern Madagascar, a drought linked to climate change threatens to push half a million people into starvation, even so few have cars. “These people are already contributing to climate change,” said Lola Castro, regional director for southern Africa for the World Food Program. told Today WorldView in June among those hardest hit. (Despite numerous public appeals for help, experts on the ground says the situation in Madagascar is still bad.)