Article 450G3 "We Are Not Prepared to Die": Ex-Maldives President Warns of Catastrophic Climate Change

"We Are Not Prepared to Die": Ex-Maldives President Warns of Catastrophic Climate Change

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"We are not prepared to die." Those are the words that Mohamed Nasheed, the former president of the low-lying island country of Maldives, delivered at the U.N. climate summit in Katowice, Poland, this week. In an impassioned plea for nations to overcome their differences, he urged world leaders to take decisive action to tackle climate change. Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed returned home to his island nation in November after two years in exile. Just a month later, Nasheed is now leading the Maldives delegation at the U.N. climate summit. We speak with him from the U.N. climate talks.

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