These are the victims of the Tar Sands, coal, and methane releases. The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), a coalition of 43 low-lying island and coastal nations... are fighting hard to get countries like the US, Canada, China, Japan, and Australia to slash their CO2 emissions and keep future global warming below 1.5 C˚. Anything higher, they believe, and most of these nations will drown. “I can tell you personally it has been very upsetting to witness what seems like an indifference to the plight of small islands,” Moses said. When told of the recent science out of Antarctica and Greenland, Claire Anterea, a community worker from the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati responded in despair, “My gosh this is not fair! If the world can’t stop the glacier collapse who will save my people and my country?” “We have a beautiful life here,” she said, “a simple and subsistence way of living. It is unexplainable to know that our beloved home will disappear.” Kiribati consists of 30-odd pancake flat coral atolls straddling the equator.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:48:14 +0000