Earth Today | Small islands, big solutions
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Recently, it has been important to point out what resilience means. It does not mean you avoid being affected. Instead, it has to do with how a country, a community, a person responds when they are affected. To quote Prince Buster, ‘Yuh pick him up, yuh lick him dung, he bounce right back. What a hard man fi dead’. This is any Caribbean Small Island Developing State. Season after season, the region has weathered hurricanes, droughts, volcanoes, floods and other natural disasters, and we continue
