它们无法应对不断上涨的海平面，持续的干旱和灾难性的风暴。 而这些国家往往不是工业化国家，无端成了气候问题的无辜受害者。
Climate change affects particularly those countries that lack the money needed to take adequate measures against rising sea levels, persistent droughts, or devastating storms, even though they had nothing to do with the primary cause of these problems – industrialization in the developed countries.