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Mother Jacinda and climate change’s King Canute

24 August 2019

9:00 AM

24 August 2019

9:00 AM

A Pacific Island Forum in Tuvalu was always going to be inundated by climate catastrophism. One of the lowest-lying island groups in the world, Tuvalu may not be sinking beneath the ocean, but it is drowning in tears.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gave a foretaste of the lamentations in May when he tweeted after visiting Tuvalu, ‘Nowhere have I seen the heartbreaking impacts of climate change more starkly than in this island nation.

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