UN General Assembly
2019

The protection of fossil-fuel economic interests at the expense of climate justice is unfair, unjust and unconscionable. If Governments have lost their moral compass in a world where multilateralism and common interests are being discarded, we must hope that Governments realize nonetheless that global cooperation is still required to preserve national interests. We should remind ourselves of the wisdom of the poet John Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and several steps in my Sickness: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”