Tuvalu at Copenhagen: 'The Fate Of My Country Rests In Your Hands'
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The poorest nations stand to lose the most from the excesses of the industrialized world. http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/12/13/tuvalu-fate-senate/
12/12/09: Ian Fry, the Tuvalu delegate to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, makes an impassioned plea for legally binding agreements to be made by world leaders to save his nation and other low-lying island states.
He notes that...
is is "an irony of the modern world that the fate of the world is being determined by some senators in the US Congress," and suggests that President Obama earn his Nobel Peace Prize by addressing the greatest threat to humanity and to security: climate change.
Tearfully, he concludes: "The fate of my country rests in your hands."
