Dear MEL Topic Readers,
It's 'inescapable': Pacific Islanders have tried to flee the climate crisis, only to face new threats
The Marshall Islands is an island country near the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, lying about halfway between Australia and Hawaii. As you know, Pacific islands have been under serious threat of global warming; rising sea levels, powerful storms, and severe droughts. Since they could do so much to cope with such devastating climate change, as many as 30,000 inhabitants of the Marshall Islands and other Micronesian islands left their islands and migrated to the west coast of the US, such as Washington, Oregon, and California in a hope to escape from natural disasters. However, they are now facing different climate disasters caused by global warming, heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires. In fact, many places on the west coast recorded high temperatures already in early July. And the severe droughts have already caused serious water shortages in many populated areas. Sadly, those climate refugees from Micronesian islands don’t seem to have become free from global warming disasters, yet.
Just a reminder. The US tested 67 nuclear bombs on the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958, leaving the islands more radioactive than Chernobyl or Fukushima. Marshall Islanders have suffered too much from human-caused disasters for the last three-quarters of a century.
Read the article and learn about how those pacific islanders have been suffering from human-caused disasters.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/08/us/pacific-islands-climate-change-refugees/index.html
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