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2025
14
Feb

Do you believe in climate change? Rising sea levels?

Not sure? Ask Lorraine, she does. The row of houses in front of hers has disappeared over the last years, by now the water is rising into her house at each high tide. She shrugs it off with a smile, while standing ankle-deep in the Pacific, cleaning her island-cabbage. Lorraine has never been on a plane, she doesn’t own an air condition, her family just has one little solar panel for one lamp at night. She basically has no carbon footprint, yet she’s suffering the consequences of industry and transport heating up the planet.
So what, you might say. Why doesn’t she move to higher grounds? Well, there are no higher grounds. The whole island is low and flat, the gardens are getting soaked in salt water and the people have nowhere to go.

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