international climate change conference

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'We've reached a stage where we cannot adapt
anymore. This is new. This is like, "The Martians are
landing!" What do you do? '

Ronald Jumeau, United Nations
representative for the Seychelles,
in remarks at the international
climate change conference currently
underway in Warsaw, Poland, noting
the devastating effects not only of
extreme storm events,  but also of
creeping desertification, salinization
and erosion that could result in
financial losses and even territorial
issues that the modern world has
never had to face

New York Times
November 17, 2013

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