Islanders Plead for Help as Homes Sink
Residents of Papua New Guinea’s sinking Carteret Islands are known as the world’s first climate change refugees but international attention has not translated into relief from their plight.
A relocation process started several years ago but only a handful of islanders have moved to nearby Bougainville.
They are pleading for help to save their relatives from their sinking island homes.
The isolated islands are slowly disappearing under the Pacific Ocean, with rising water inundating crops and spoiling water supplies.
I do hope that Australia, Japan and the nations who, predominantly, caused the disaster to exist, think hard about what responsibility they have in providing homes for those whom THEY have displaced.
This is a kind thing to do for those who really can’t go home again. Because of the environmental disaster known as global warming and the hole in the ozone layer above Aus and surrounding islands, this beautiful island is sinking and its residents made homeless.
Help. Period!