Thursday, 5 December 2019

The Climate Crisis Isn't Just Taking Pacific Islanders' Homes, It's Taking Our Identities

The Climate Crisis Isn't Just Taking Pacific Islanders' Homes, It's Taking Our Identities

According to traditional knowledge, in Southeast Asia at the end of the last Ice Age, “fenua imi,” the swallowing of land, forced people to relocate to faraway atolls in a region now called Oceania. About 4,500 years of global stability allowed for the island cultures to develop and thrive in ways specifically tied to the local environment.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kje3/climate-change-isnt-just-taking-indigenous-pacific-islanders-homes-its-taking-our-identities?source=Snapzu

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