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Global
Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands
Through
personal stories of Pacific Islanders, Rising Waters shows how
global warming is not something that looms in the distant future, but is a
threat whose first impacts may already have begun. Pacific Islanders take
the viewer on a journey through several of the smallest nations on earth,
and show what they believe are the first signs of global warming never
witnessed before the last decade: unusual high tides, rogue waves and
erosion that have swept several of the low-lying atolls of Micronesia,
destroying crops, polluting fresh water supplies destroying ancestral
graveyards. Warmer waters are now killing off coral reefs, and an increase
in the frequency and intensity of hurricanes is making it difficult for
island communities and ecosystems to recover. |
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