Enele Sopoaga Quotes

Tuvalu, Politician
February 10, 1956

Enele Sosene Sopoaga PC is a Tuvaluan diplomat and politician who has been Prime Minister of Tuvalu since 2013. Sopoaga was elected to Parliament in the 2010 general election. He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Environment and Labour in Prime Minister Maatia Toafa's short-lived government from September to December 2010.

People living on atolls like Tuvalu are among the world's most threatened populations.

Enele Sopoaga
- People
- Populations
If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?

Enele Sopoaga

Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.

Enele Sopoaga
Sometimes I wonder if there is really goodwill in the world to worry about saving human beings, or whether we are just using that as camouflage for our own interests, the self-centered drive for more profits.

Enele Sopoaga
Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.

Enele Sopoaga