“We are that canary. But hopefully, that experience will send a very strong message that we might be on the front line today, but others will be on the front line next — and the next and the next.”
Tong compared Kiribati to a canary in a coal mine, warning that his nation's climate crisis was an early warning of what other countries would eventually face.
— Anote Tong, Kiribati
Source: Anote Tong, interview on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, 8 June 2014
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