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The world’s donor community then did what it always does when climate disaster strikes Africa or another developing region. Blame was attributed to climate change, framed as an abstract collective failure with no single culprit. The victims were poor, but specific perpetrators could not be identified. Nobody billed anybody.

That era may now have ended, not in Maputo but in the haze over New Jersey. As smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires turned skies orange across much of the US, leading tens of millions of soccer fans to wonder if the world’s most-watched sporting event would be disrupted, President Donald Trump responded not with cooperation or mutual aid, but with a demand for accountability. America had........

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