Excerpt from Impakter:
2019 is on track to be the hottest year ever recorded. Heatwaves in Europe saw the mercury peak past 45℃ this summer, while major fires ravaged the United States, Russia, and Canada. In Australia droughts and severe weather events worsened. Greenland announced that its ice shelves hemorrhaged ice at the rate of several billion liters per day within the same news cycle that Guam declared it had lost over a third of its coral coverage. Globally, the climate is shifting, sea levels are rising and the environment is suffering.
With extreme temperatures and weather events dominating the headlines and activists taking to the streets, climate change has become a real talking point amongst politicians and the general public. Despite many still debating whether or not the world is facing a climate crisis, island nations across the world have long been living with the certainty that it is real. When Dr. Caroline Rufin-Soler expressed in a 2004 research paper that “it has been over a decade now that atoll nations live in the certainty that human-driven global warming will be the reason for their disappearance,” she was hardly the first to convey their plight.
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