First global warming refugees
Inuit start to feel the heat in a world warming up
"THEY build their homes on stilts, commute to work on quad bikes down sand-covered streets and look nervously out to sea when a storm nears.
"But the fate of the 562 residents of Shishmaref, on a small barrier island off the north-western coast of Alaska, looks decided: they are about to become the world’s first 'global warming refugees'. If they do not abandon their homes, climatologists say, they will die."
Source: The Times
Inuit start to feel the heat in a world warming up
"THEY build their homes on stilts, commute to work on quad bikes down sand-covered streets and look nervously out to sea when a storm nears.
"But the fate of the 562 residents of Shishmaref, on a small barrier island off the north-western coast of Alaska, looks decided: they are about to become the world’s first 'global warming refugees'. If they do not abandon their homes, climatologists say, they will die."
Source: The Times
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