Argumentative Essay On A Hurricane

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On September 22, 2017 Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, addressed the United Nations General Assembly with a plea to accept ownership and responsibility for the harms perpetuated by climate change. This plea came days after Dominica and other Caribbean Islands were ravaged by two back-to-back category 5 hurricanes (winds exceeding 157 mph).
I am Dominican (not to be mistaken with the Dominican Republic) by birth and I reside in the US Virgin Islands (USVI). The morning the first hurricane, Irma, passed was nerve wrecking. I was speaking to my mother as I tracked the path of the storm, when she suddenly confessed in a tearful voice, “I’m afraid.” I heard the howling wind through the phone as the 200 mile per hour winds gradually approached the USVI. From her view from the kitchen window, she informed me that everything not bolted to the ground with steel or cement was airborne. She had never witnessed anything like it despite experiencing direct hits from four previous major storms in her lifetime. The last thing she said before the phone lines completely went down, cutting them off from the outside world, was “This is serious. Something’s wrong here.”
And it was serious.
People lost their lives, livelihoods were destroyed, and one island was left uninhabitable for the first time in the over …show more content…

Based on the emerging climate patterns, there is a marked difference in the Caribbean climate. The rising air and water temperatures act as a fuel, altering ordinary storms and transforming them into devastating forces of destruction as they barrel toward the Caribbean. In addition to the intensified storms, there has been intense rainfall, prolonged droughts, and an increase in the number of hot days. If sea levels continue to rise, thousands will be

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