Tonight I went to a screening of An Inconvenient Truth. Before the film, a young man gave a presentation about how global warming is destroying his homeland, a small island in the Pacific. The rising sea level is contaminating the ground water and killing off the coastal trees that his people depend on for food, medicine, and building materials. Rising ocean temperatures are wiping out the coral reefs. Without the reefs, there are no fish to eat. It’s not clear how much longer the island will be inhabitable, but the people there are too poor to move. It was very sad.
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