JALUIT IS ONE OF THE IDYLLIC PALM-FRINGED ATOLLS WHICH MAKE UP THE MARSHALL ISLANDS. HERE THE TOPPLED COCONUT PALMS SHOW HOW SEA LEVEL RISE IS NIBBLING AWAY AT THE ALREADY TINY ISLANDS. THE COCONUT PALMS’ SURVIVAL IS ESSENTIAL BECAUSE THEY HOLD TOGETHER THE SOIL, AND MAKE UP THE MAJOR AGRICULTURAL CROP OF THE ISLANDS.
This is a superb exhibition. Congratulations.
did anyone investigate if these phenomenon have happened in the past. is this warming globilization that drastic suddenly. there were no proof before that it was happening slowly and nothing was done. I feel that today all we can do is slow the inevitable process down but it seems impossible to practise ways to stop the degradation or even reverse it.
The exhibition does well to highlight the issues it does. Not all the inferences are complete.
Australian aboriginals could walk to New Guinea and Tasmania 12,000 years ago in the ice ages, now they have several hundred kilometers of boat ride to make the trip. No one is entitled to a constant coast line.
Farming is about the hardest work on the planet and farmers have been leaving the land since they first had an alternative. It is happening in China and it is happening in countries with industrialised agriculture where less than 10 per cent of the population is still farming. The implication that climate change is driving it, or that science will not aid plant development to adjust to warmer growing seasons is another two issues I would not bet on.
But we do have to try to do something about reducing our input to climate change.