Navy Secretary Reaches Out to Caribbean Nations in Fight Against Climate Change

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In the Bahamas, it is more than a concern, it is an existential threat.  

"Climate change is a matter of life and death for us here in this country," said Bahamas National Security Minister Wayne R. Munroe. "There is a choice – if there is not a reverse – to either become refugees or die. It is that serious a matter for this country."  

The United States takes climate change seriously and Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro journeyed to the island nation off the coast of Florida to pledge support for the Caribbean nations fighting for their very existence.  

Del Toro made the trip — the first by a secretary of the Navy to the Bahamas – to hear from those fighting against climate change and to find out how the service can help in the struggle. Daniel P. Erikson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Western Hemisphere affairs, accompanied the secretary. 

"The consequences of our changing climate are an existential threat," Del Toro said during a speech at the University of the Bahamas in Nassau. "The increasing severity of those consequences are already being acutely felt here in the Caribbean. You are on the front lines of the climate crisis." 

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https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3330299/navy-secretary-reaches-out-to-caribbean-nations-in-fight-against-climate-change/