The Maldives, Climate Change and God

A great quote about the cultural complexities of acting on climate change. From the Maldives; islands in the Indian Ocean that may disappear and/or become highly vulnerable to storms with sea level rise.

For your average fisherman who feels very insignificant in front of God, they are finding it difficult to understand the connetion between climate change and human activity. When people say changes in weather patterns are because of nature and not because of man, you really have to connect: if humans can become carbon-neutral, then God could act in a different set of ways. But God has to be there in the conversation somewhere. President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives NYT May 10 2009.