https://portside.org/2017-12-18/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