Sinking Tuvalu
The island nation of Tuvalu is slowly being drowned by global warming. Most people there expect to emigrate. It may be possible for 10,000 refugees to find a place to go. But if climate change sends millions fleeing, a few decades from now, will anyone let them in?
“The sea level is climbing by 5.6mm a year, twice the average global rate predicted by the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)” and “Australia and America and England don’t take notice of [the island nation] because we’re too small, and they want to keep their factories and cars.”
Interesting that England is percieved as one of the most harmful countries, when a Dutch government study found last month that China now tops the USA as the most harfmul polluting country - I suppose this is because those countries’ media establishments are the most widely disseminated.
But it suggests that when climate change destoys millions of people’s lives in the 2030s, England will be held to blame.
Better go visit it on a jet plane quick, then, I suppose…
The Sinking Tuvalu by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
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