“All the Disappearing Islands”
February 9th, 2006Mother Jones reports on the possible fate of low-lying islands in the face of sea-level rise:
Today, roughly 1 million people live on coral islands worldwide, and many more millions live on low-lying real estate vulnerable to the rising waves. At risk are not just people, but unique human cultures, born and bred in watery isolation. Faced with inundation, some of these people are beginning to envision the wholesale abandonment of their nations.