The victims of global warming

Waves slowly seep to the Pacific islands, which are the first to feel the effects of global warming. Australia first proposed changes to the International Convention on the Status of Refugees, to include the position of the people who were evicted from their territories under the influence of climatic izmeneniy.

In the mid-1990s, Tony Benson bought gasoline at this gas station. Now he stands on the ruins submerged in vodu.

Father Martin, the parish priest on the island Abayang walks through the wasteland that was once the village Tebunginako. Increased seawater make the soil highly saline, and now it does not grow on culture, vital to the survival of rural zhiteley.

Due to population growth in Tarawa, lagoons and beaches are heavily zagryazneny.

Children bathe in the well in the South Tarawa. The population is growing rapidly, while the supply of fresh water decreases. As the level of the sea, fresh water horizons are reduced as they are pushed naverh.

Children play on the rusting skeleton of a ship abandoned on the shore, along with cars and other metal debris. Heavy metals emitted during corrosion of these remains, go straight into the main source of fresh water in the south Tarava.

On the atoll of Tarawa more than 50 000 people are on a 35-kilometer strip of coral reefs. Several hundred people live here illegally constructed shacks next to the runway of the international aeroporta.

Kiribati is heavily dependent on foreign money, the state has almost no export income. The country receives about $ 40 million. Annually in the form of fees for the use of its water resources, in particular for fishing.

Source: teleobektiv.ru/Mir-vokrug-nas/Kiribati-stanet-odnoy-iz-pervyh-zhertv-globalnogo-potepleniya.html