Mia Mottley

At the same time, I've always relied on the fact that God and time and circumstances can be allies.

God for faith, time, because we have a saying in Barbados, what ain't catch you, ain't pass you.

What ain't catch you, ain't pass you.

What ain't catch you, ain't pass you.

I like that.

Just because it hasn't caught you yet, it hasn't passed you either.

And in terms of circumstances, things happen and we don't, it's maybe part of the divine if you're a person of faith or things just happen if you don't have that.

And why is my voice on climate resonating more today?

because of the floods in Pakistan, because of countries in Africa that are going through famine and locusts, because of wildfires in Greece and California.

Those are the circumstances.

Time, because 20, 30 years ago when Al Gore was telling us about an inconvenient truth, nobody wanted to listen.

So circumstances and time and faith have a way of conspiring to create that opportunity, even regardless of how small you are.

And as you learn in the stories with David and Goliath, regardless of how large you are.

Do you think the world- And the fact that, let me give you a small example, because South Africa plays cricket.

And Nelson Mandela made the point that when he was in prison, learning about the conquests of the West Indies cricketers,

beating the British, beating the Australians in the 1960s, that this gave him such a sense of warmth and hope.

You understand?

And that's what it does for ordinary people.

So Barbados, as small as we are, before Rihanna, there was Sir Garfield Sobers, Gary Sobers, the greatest cricketer of all time.

You go to Australia, they'll tell you who's the greatest cricketer of all time, all-rounder, Gary Sobers.