Dilapidated seawall, Kiribati. Photo source: ©© Jodie Gatfield, AusAID
Excerpts;
Mother Ocean isn’t the heart of providence the people have always known. She is beginning to show a different face, a menacing one of encroaching tides and battering waves.
“I-Kiribati now live with the reality of marawa rising. This is the time of bibitakin kanoan boong—“change in weather over many days”—the Kiribati phrase for climate change. The people live with the fear and uncertainty of those words.”
How can they not feel afraid when the world keeps telling them that low-lying island countries like theirs will soon be underwater..?
Read Full Article, National Geographic
Kiribati Family ‘Terrified’ of Going Home, (09-23-2015)
A Video: Kiribati Conference: Voices From the South Pacific – Part II (11-19-2010)
Pacific Island Nation of Kiribati, Slideshow And Video, Guardian UK (06-14-2013)
Reuters photographer David Gray spent time documenting life in the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati, a chain of 33 atolls and islands that stand just metres above sea level, spread over a huge expanse of otherwise empty ocean…
Will Pacific Island Nations Disappear as Seas Rise? National Geographic (02-15-2015)
Escaping the Waves: a Fijian Village Relocates, a Video (10-03-2015)
“When many understand climate change in concept but not through personal experience, this exhibit carries great weight…”
Should International Refugee Law Accommodate Climate Change? United Nations (07-15-2014)
Can the United Nations help to protect people seeking safety abroad if their homes and jobs are destroyed by prolonged drought, rising sea levels or other climate change-related phenomena in the same way as if they were displaced by war or human rights abuses? The short answer, today anyway, is no. (!)…
If an island state vanishes, is it still a nation?
Many Atolls May be Uninhabitable Within Decades Due to Climate Change, USGS (10-02-2015)
