The last generation to live in Tuvalu | UNICEF Australia
The last generation to live in Tuvalu | UNICEF Australia
Without urgent climate action, the children of Tuvalu could become the last generation to live on an archipelago that is quickly going underwater.
Tuvalu is likely to be the first country in the world to become uninhabitable due to climate change. And the children of Tuvalu could become the last generation to live on an archipelago that is quickly going underwater. It's happening fast. Scientists predict that 95% of the country will be underwater at high tide by the year 2100.
Climate change is causing sea levels to rise, and that's a critical problem for a country like Tuvalu, where the average elevation above sea level is only two metres. Flooding is not a new problem, but they have become more frequent and severe in recent years.
The constant influx of saltwater is contaminating the country’s farmland and groundwater, leaving the island dependent on rainwater and vulnerable to droughts, water shortages and disease outbreaks.
Meanwhile, strong tides are washing chunks of land away. The sand is slowly being swallowed up by the sea. Today, there are hardly any sandy beaches left in the small archipelago.
Shits gonna go orders of magnitude more nuts when half of Bangladesh gets swallowed by the sea.
The population of Tuvalu is about 11,000. I think the fate of these islands is very far down the list of reasons for urgent climate action. Maybe poignant human-interest stories like this one do some good because they attract public interest, but they don't actually focus that public interest onto important matters.
decimation of a culture is important to every human regardless of the size of the erhnic group
Yes. It does focus the public's attention. The threat of climate change is no longer an abstract, future problem.