Some days we all feel Mother Earth’s despair, today that couldn’t be clearer. As we embarked on our trip to the Chocolate islands (a nickname due to the islands’ cocoa-producing past) news headlines declare that the US has decided to withdraw the country from the “Accords de Paris”, the international symposium on environmental change. It’s such Ironic timing that I am writing these words directly following the devastation of the Gulf Coast of Texas by hurricane “Harvey”; meanwhile hurricane “Irma” is busy destroying Florida. Back to back, Hurricanes Jose and Maria are heading towards Puerto Rico… Don’t think it is a cause and effect relationship, it has nothing to do with global warming, it is a coincidence says ex-French President Nicolas Sarkozy, “One has to be arrogant like men to think we have changed the climate” (14th September 2016).
