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'As he pushed through knee-deep water, Sailosi Ramatu suddenly paused. He
pointed to the stub of a post barely visible in the seabed.
"This was my house," he said, matter-of-factly.
It stopped me in my tracks.
One minute I'd been worried about my shoes squelching as we waded along an
eroded shoreline past the remnants of an abandoned village.
The next, I was feeling the extent of this man's profound loss.
Sailosi's village of Vunidogoloa, which once stood here on the remote shores of
Fiji's second-biggest island, has the dubious honour of being one of the first
communities in the world to be forced into a government-planned relocation
because of climate change.
Vunidogoloa is one of six Fijian villages that have already been moved because
of the impacts of climate change, and dozens more are currently being assessed
for relocation.
With 20 per cent of Fiji's population of nearly a million people living on
coastal and river fringes, thousands now face the prospect of having to move to
higher ground.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
