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Mia Mottley

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1237 total appearances

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What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

World War II, yeah.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

Okay.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

And I can give you all the examples of the discriminatory treatment, including the fact that you allowed Germany to cap

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

its debt service payments on the basis of its exports, percentage of its exports, or that UK took a hundred years to repay for World War I, but yet you want me to borrow and pay back for a school in 15 years or a hospital.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

Makes no sense.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

We need longer term, cheaper capital in order for the developing world to get where it needs to get and to stop the migration that you're complaining about and to have

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

structured arrangements for labor movement and labor shortages.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

But if we go back to all of this, we find that, look, the absence of that capacity to have cheaper money and cheaper capital is actually making the world unfair.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

Transpose it as you did to populations.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

The rich get access to loans on a phone call and the poor have to depend on a susu or a meat intern if they're lucky.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

And it is that absence of,

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

Fairness, that I believe that if we get in the same room, most human beings do have empathy.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

Most human beings do care about fairness.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

But when you're in a large corporation, as you said, and you're pushing for quarterly returns and all of these things, you can hide behind all of that.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

But if I confront you face to face, you're actually going to say, you know, you're right.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

You know that I'm fair.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

And we start to begin, even if it is going to be complex for you to deconstruct, we start the process and we at least agree on the destination.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

And then we start to discuss the modalities for reaching that destination.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

Climate has come at a time that maybe if I was leading 15, 20 years ago, I'd just remain a voice in the wilderness.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Prime Minister Mia Mottley: Climate, Immigration, and the Power of Small Nations

But the global circumstances, and in fact, the democratization of voice because of technology has created...