rising leader of a nation kathy jett no kid you know was invited to the twenty fourteen united nations climate change summit in new york to speak about how. the front line in the battle against rising sea levels the marshall islands encompasses more than two million square kilometers of ocean i mean it's the united nations these are world leaders from all over and it was the first time that i was able to share something that i was i cared about you know something about the islands and what she shared was a poem about climate change here much of a poem addressed to her infant daughter who are a seven month old son rise of gummy smile you are bald as an egg and bald as the buddha you are thighs that are thunder shrieks that are lightning so excited for bananas hugs and our morning walk along the loop. dear much of filipino i want to tell you about that lagoon by lady lounging in the gulag. against the sunrise men say that one day that lagoon will devour you they say it will not the shoreline to at the roots of your bread fruit trees gulp down roads the walls and crunch through your island shattered bones. don