Thread by @wickdchiq

This is the best climate speech I've ever heard. Reminds us that some of those leading this issue are those vulnerable island states
#ClimateCrisis

https://twitter.com/NotInMyColour/status/1442124837833502720

"What we need is fiscal and policy space to achieve sustainable development, to be nimble, to adapt and to innovate in ways that allow us to be true and faithful to the task of bringing prosperity to our people"

"We want an international order equally that recognizes that there must be different policy prescriptions to suit the circumstances that we all have. And we can still be friends."
That, my friends, is equity.

Mottley just shit all over the Washington Consensus (this is going down the rabbit hole of international economics). "That ultimately, irrevocably was about the consolidation of wealth in the hands of the very few"
WHEW!

"That's why we've seen the growing inequality that we have seen in the world over the last few decades...The fuelling of the greed of a few threatens to undermine what little gains we have made since Independence"

I BEEN SAYING. The inequalities we face stem from neoliberalism

Let's look at the Washing. Consensus:
Fiscal conservatism
Tax reform
Trade liberalization
Privatization
Deregulation
This is neoliberalism and this is why there are so many inequities in our world. This is the world our parents left for us.

Honestly y'all I have to start this over. It's too rich and delicious of a speech not to.
h/t @lisakirbie for turning me onto this

There’s something very Wakanda about this speech #UNGA