https://portside.org/2013-11-17/growing-clamor-about-inequities-climate-crisis

'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 16, 2013