“Mauritius lost between 2 and 56 percent of its living coral between 2001 and 2016.”
Mauritius gets four to eight hours of water a day due to rationing, then flash floods kill eleven people in an underpass. Beaches have shrunk by twenty meters. The Mauritius kestrel population dropped from 600 to as low as 200. And the government’s response to all of this was to pass the Offshore Petroleum Bill in 2021, opening its waters to oil drilling right next to one of Earth’s largest carbon sinks. That is a government that has given up on the future while pretending to care about it.