not drowning, fighting
Feb 06, 2022
3 minutes
WORDS KATE STANTON
A pretty shameful reality of the climate crisis is that the folks least responsible for it suffer the most severe consequences. Though Pacific island nations like Fiji, Tonga and Tuvalu contribute to just 0.03 per cent of global emissions, climate change is threatening to make these countries uninhabitable by the end of the century. There are no coal-fired power stations in the Pacific islands, but global warming, rising sea levels and natural disasters are killing local wildlife, flooding farms and destroying sacred burial grounds. Then there’s the cultural loss; imagine knowing your
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