Almost every speaker taking the podium in the great hall of the assembly preceded their remarks by expressing condolences for the victims of the Mexico earthquake and the hurricanes that lashed Florida and Texas in the United States and several island states in the Caribbean.
"I come to you straight from the front line of the war on climate change, said an emotional Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit of Dominica, ignoring the general advice not to link single weather events with climate change. "I have left my bleeding nation to be with you ... because these are the moments for which the United Nations exists!"
"To deny climate change is to procrastinate while the earth sinks; it is to deny a truth we have just lived! It is to mock thousands of my compatriots ... without a roof over their heads ... in fear of sudden mudslides and what the next hurricane may bring," he said.
"We, as a country, and as a region, did not start this war against nature! We did not provoke it! The war has come to us!" he added.
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