{"id":8100,"date":"2010-12-07T09:12:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8100"},"modified":"2010-12-07T09:12:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:42:32","slug":"marshallese-confront-existential-threat-with-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8100","title":{"rendered":"Marshallese confront existential threat with climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"

As reported in the Honolulu Star Advertiser,<\/a> Marshall Islands delegates to the UN climate change conference in Cancun are confronting unique problems as a nation state that is rapidly disappearing under rising seas.\u00a0 Not only have Marshallese and other Micronesians had to deal with the legacy of imperialism, wars, and nuclear testing; they are now facing extinction as an entire nation due to the greenhouse gas emissions of the industrialized countries:<\/p>\n

CANCUN, Mexico >> Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two.<\/p>\n

“It’s getting worse,” says Kaminaga Kaminaga, the tiny nation’s climate change coordinator.<\/p>\n

The rising ocean raises questions, too: What happens if the 61,000 Marshallese must abandon their low-lying atolls? Would they still be a nation? With a U.N. seat? With control of their old fisheries and their undersea minerals? Where would they live, and how would they make a living? Who, precisely, would they and their children become?<\/p>\n

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As reported in the Honolulu Star Advertiser, Marshall Islands delegates to the UN climate change conference in Cancun are confronting unique problems as a nation state that is rapidly disappearing under rising seas.\u00a0 Not only have Marshallese and other Micronesians had to deal with the legacy of imperialism, wars, and nuclear testing; they are now … <\/p>\n

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