10 Quotes from President James Michel at the AOSIS Ministerial Meeting
1. Our survival is bound up with the sustainable development of our planet.
2. Islands are the pulse of this planet.
3. All we have is our collective will to make a difference.
4. Too often we are treated as bystanders. And more often than not, we allow ourselves to be treated as bystanders.
5. We must continue to be the standard bearers of ‘inconvenient truths’.
6. We must be the ones who will walk even where others fear to tread.
7. We must own our own solutions.
8. Let us be heard on every beach and every roadside.
9. Let us ensure that there is no discourse on security, on trade, on human rights, on development … unless we are also addressing climate change.
10. We cannot accept that any island be lost to sea level rise.
AOSIS - the Alliance of Small Island States - is holding its Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change in Seychelles from the 11th to the 12th November, 2014 in Seychelles. The quotes are from President James Michel's speech at the opening of the meeting.
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2yThese quotes together reveal advanced and mature Systems Thinking, and place James Michel in the same intellectual realm as the world's greatest systems thinkers, from Fritjof Capra, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Kenneth Boulding, Ralph Gerard, and Anatol Rapoport, and possibly the genius of them all, Ervin László, the Hungarian philosopher of science, systems theorist, integral theorist, and advocate of the theory of quantum consciousness, whom I have the great privilege of knowing personally through the Club of Budapest in Paris.
Marine Biologist, Scientix Ambassador (2024 - 2025), EIA Consultant, National Geographic Educator & iVSO (Philippines) Marine Biologist (former), Lecturer & Head (former)
8yExcellent Quote by Mr. President
Energy & Climate Change Contractor
9yA call for Climate Change Urgency Actions!!!
Technical Support Manager
10yI like this quote about bystanders. More often is developing countries we tend or are shy to bring our ideas forward thinking others are better than us. No, this must be put aside nowadays. we have issues and we have solutions as well and shall not be afraid to bring them forward and own them as the President quotes.
Program Coordinator at COMESA
10yThanks that should keep us in track as we move forward