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Climate change a present threat to Pacific nations
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Green Left Online
Stewart Shuker, Brisbane, & Sue Bolton, Me
Speakers from Micronesia, Kiribati, Tuvalu and the Torres Strait Islands described how climate change affects their everyday lives at meetings of 180 people in Brisbane on July 28 and 170 people in Melbourne on July 30
Climate change has meant tidal surges now breach high sea walls, coast lines are being steadily washed away and staple crops and underground water sources are lost to rising sea levels. Diseases such as Dengue fever and Japanese encephalitis have returned to many Pacific islands.
Pelenise Alofa Pilitati from Kiribati said her people might be displaced by rising sea levels. “This is the last night you can help your brothers, now, right now, today. What will you do for your brother, for your Pacific family?” she asked. Pilitati said Pacific Islanders did not want relocation; they wanted the global warming problem fixed.
Continued: Climate change a present threat to Pacific nations
From: Australian News, Green Left Weekly issue #805 5 August 2009.
