The people of Kiribati are afraid that one day in the not-too distant future, their country will disapear from the face of the earth-literally. Several times this year, the Pacific island nation has been flooyed by a sudden high tide. This tides, wich swept across the island and destroyed houses, came when there was a neither wind not rain. This never happened before: say the older cityzen of Kiribati. What is causing these mysterious high tides? The answer may well be global warming. When fules like oil and coal are being burned, pollutians are released; this pollutants trap heat in the earths, athmosphere. Warmer temperatures cause watrer to expand and also create more water by melting glaciers and polar ice caps.
If the trend continues, scientist say many countries will sufer. Bangladesh, for example, might lose one-fifth of its land. The coral island nations of the Pacific, like Kiribati and the Marshall Islands, however would face an ever worse fate-sea. They loss of these coral formations are home to everyones loss. Coral formations are home to more species than any other place on earth.
The people of this nations feel frustred. The sea, wich their economies have always been based, in suddenly treatening their existence. They dont have money for expensive tecnological solutions like seawalls. And they have no control over the pollutants, which are being released maily by activities ain large industrialized contries. All they can do is to hope that industrialized countries will take steps to reduce pollutions.
sábado, 21 de noviembre de 2009
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