In small countries like ours, I think we’ve come to realize, very early, that multinational companies have become more powerful than small nation-states. And part of their power lies in the fact that they operate in multiple countries. While we are consumed by or asked to focus on xenophobia and antagonism across each other, what global warming tells us is that these ideas of nationhood and things like that, that’s one way to see us, but, in a sense, we need to learn to understand that we are part of a global ecosystem. And what one person does in one country really impacts the lives of others. The Caribbean, the Bahamas, we’re small, but when the United States sneezes, we catch a cold. And I think Dorian can also be seen as a metaphor for the ways in which small nations like the Bahamas are impacted by global concerns.

Not that anybody here needs convincing, but this should be proof, to any thinking person, that there is no God. Because if there were a God, would he let such an injustice stand? We live in a world where the guilty do whatever they like, without consequence, and the innocent suffer for it.