Rodne Galiche ( district manager in the Philippines for The Climate Reality Project, overseen in Asia by the Australian Conservation Foundation, based at a disaster relief centre on Romblon, one of the smaller Philippine islands devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, also known as Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, and which devastated parts of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines, on November 8, 2013 where it killed 6,268 people) (2013): “Typhoon Haiyan speaks to us of climate inaction, injustice, apathy and irresponsibility. Enough with all the suffering, enough with this madness. When will they listen? When there will be no people to listen to? When our voices are buried with the rubble left by storm surges and strong winds? As help from different parts of the globe arrives, we are thankful for the sympathy - but what we need most is empathy. After global assistance has been delivered, states emitting large amount of carbon dioxide may still remain business as usual…Attorney Christina Barroga is exploring how to raise the recent cyclonic event at the International Criminal Court. You see, for us this a crime - a climate crime - and we will be seeking climate justice. With this catastrophic reality, human beings here in the Philippines have now become an endangered species” (Rodne Galiche, “Typhoon Haiyan: this is a climate crime”, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 November 2013: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/typhoon-haiyan-this-is-a-climate-crime-20131115-2xkif.html ).