It must not be tolerated by the family of nations. The crime is no less when it is perpetuated slowly by the emission of invisible gases. Unchecked climate change would cause untold human and ecological misery not just in our remote island countries, but everywhere on Earth. Already drought has afflicted much of the world of late and has caused raging brush fires. Recent studies by the World Resources Institute and the US Environmental Protection Agency project nearly a million deaths a year from the pollution coupled with greenhouse gas emission, mainly in developing countries.
Island countries are the microcosm of which all other countries are the macrocosm.
Unchecked climate change promises not only our destruction, but pestilence, disease and famine everywhere on Earth - for all living things. Let us create a Kyoto Protocol that we can show proudly to our children.