20 OCTOBER 2014
Sept. 23, 2014 saw the single most important meeting on climate change in five years, a gathering of most world leaders at the United Nations in New York. The centerpiece of the gathering was a poem sadly heightened by solastalgia, the sadness felt by those who sense their planet changing – degrading – beyond all recognition.
It was presented by 26-year old, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Civil Society Representative from the tiny atolls of the Marshall Islands. The Marshall Islands is among the countries most affected by climate change — a minute change to the climate of these tiny atolls could destroy them, and erode all else.
Source: International Policy Digest