万花筒 2009-12-14&12-16 消失于海水中的太平洋小岛

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The everyday things we do mean people on the other side of the world have everyday battle to survive. The L island in the middle of Pacific appeared xx, but on the ground it is the hellish kind of paradise¹.

It looks like the aftermath of S, but this is normal because of climate change. T village was built on good land, but rising sea level means it regularly floods. L the first real victim of global warming.

We have house like xx on the ground but it is built up and water going through and for me, I was worrying like it is gonna fall xx and everything is gonna disappear.

Their homes look more like boats than houses. Some predict the island could be uninhabitable in just twenty years. But it not just flood homes that leaving this island with a crisis². This whole area used to be great for growing coco trees, vital for the economy and vital for the local diet. But now you can see, salt water is everywhere, that’s killing³ off the trees and leaving the people here with a whole new range of problems.

At the island hospital I, E had just had a leg apitated. A couple of decades ago, a xx of people have diet BTs, now a fifth of the populations have the illness. He tells me because crops no longer grown, the island import food, introduced to announced healthy diet, he became addict⁴ to sugar and got diet BTs.

Banking⁵ xx, the tides gone out. Before it returns, there are a few precious hours to rebuild homes. I am taken to where the sea wall has again collapsed⁶, they are trying to shore it up, but know it is a battle they can’t win.

This island has done almost nothing to damage the environment, yet because of others they are the world’s first human casualties⁷ of climate change.