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instagram or years at g. W. Stories new topics each week on instagram. Along. Its load it on town along the main atoll of the Island Nation of cyrene bus boy. And his three sons in just a few hours before the water returns. If there are no stones on the beach anymore and thats why we have to go far out we need to get coral because the sea is flooding our house that. The home of tartar and his family of twelve is under threat ten years ago they started building a wall made of coral. That. Were already have when the water comes all the way up to here and theres a strong wind thats when its worst and the water bashes against our wall and sprays over our whole house we have to build a higher wall so the Water Doesnt Flood our home. Is a reality. Thats you know that you know. And what do you that i work in the past our wall kept breaking because it was only this high now its higher and more stable it protects us from the sea many walls collapse at high tide but were lucky it was Still Standing or yeah you got to get. It at the back. In just thirty years tartars wall could cease to
but then i only got i mean thats. The one of the i mean the government you gotta go you have to plant the mangroves the hands with the part. Of. The city has been organizing a growing number of such volunteer planting events. Ok these are the seeds from the mangroves and we pick them up and then this other ones that we use to plant them and then they go again we think green case gets when we plant them the winds will come and maybe two will be flooded away at least one will stay and be and believe so thats why we take three all the time with you know the people of toronto have already planted more than Fifty Thousand mangroves on the beaches of the actual. I think. The young people here of grown up with Climate Change theyre scared. To live in the dining room right now you know on. Michigan rising is the area important during the back line effect
while i live here. And i just dont want to see my island get drunk i will see this in my village where i live goes on like this but by this you. Know the future prospects for kerry bass is young people are dying but none of them want to leave their home. Im still proud to be a kid who just. Basically distilled proud of the country which is what this is where we belong its all Culture Oh Identity thats why i think this is where our heart to belong to. The hope is that these mangroves on ambo beach will grow into a forest like the one that helps defy storm surges in the south of town no one. Protecting the coastline has become a National Priority for the people of paribas but theres no coherent plan and the government lacks the funds for long term infrastructure missions. Those who can afford concrete have built a wall in their own expense thats what it in women with has done the young entrepreneur from the village of tub or air. That i think Climate Change will only get worse in the future it one day will drown when other people think differently but im scared by whats happening we have to protect ourselves thats why were building the seawall that this i dont want to when they got there. The sea is calm today but its only a matter of time before the next storm surge arrives. Home
to around Sixty Thousand people more than half the countrys entire population. Livable land is becoming increasingly sparse says Climate Activist in a city. Compared to ten years ago in our case like this people stayed in their homes but nowadays the people who migrate from there for a Better Future they came here for education where for everything. It ended up like this everyone be closely to each other. In addition to Climate Change overpopulation is one of the biggest problems on talent. He says is simply passed from one person to another and especially with the kids that go on mints ever limits resource it cant employ each and every one of them on average
a family here has five to six children almost every square metre of land on tara has now been built on the main thing that is strengthening as is the Sea Level Rise we have plenty of ocean the sea is taking most of the land and people whatever they have to build seawalls but it doesnt help when the water now no one can stop the water it just comes and then take away all the lands again. In twenty fourteen the effects of Global Warming on kerry bass attracted international attention. Made a bid to become the worlds first Climate Change refugee when he applied for asylum in new zealand. So if the government of new zealand didnt recognise Climate Change as grounds for asylum they didnt think that the people of kerry bass with threatened by nature and forced to flee as a result. Of his family were deported from new zealand a year later even though the situation. An in their home country has been getting
progressively worse it was a shock for the family. Then and what scares me is that our land is now lying around it by the ceiling and its being washed away all round us and them. Below honor and his family have moved in with his sister but they dont see a future for themselves on carey boss yeah yeah. Me my biggest worry is my children i want them to be safe we dont want to wait until the end while many people criticize me for trying to be a Climate ChangeRefugee Saying im talking my country down but i want to leave again it Doesnt Matter where we live. It will survive with us. Gary buseys first inhabitants settle here around Three Thousand years ago the
majority came from Southeast Asia and polynesia the locals are a proud people who are attached to their traditions. Yeah. Yeah youre. Right youre right there yeah. Around fifty kilometers to the north of tara is a different world its a nice bossley populated. The village of t. Boone the narco has become a symbol of the impending dangers of Climate Change over the past twenty years rising sea levels have destroyed kabul and johns home. Long time ago this is that land before and they used to have money area big house for like gathering people bodies acacias and all the b. Will be avoid the levy and now they all moved to to die on the mainland. To bring in arco is still home to seventy families there was the second largest village on our buying rising salinity from Daily Flooding has made the soil infertile. Before i dont care about climate said when i i had a bad climate at all its nothing and now i see the division oh theyre in beds and they strike warning me and i know im thinking maybe im gonna move my grade to one
hundred dollars radio news in another country course the serializing they always increase. I have two kids and then when i look for the kids then maybe i should move. But wants to stay its not a question of courage he just feels connected to his home. From kitty best we are proud to be best we want to die here we dont want to go to overseas we want to stay here. When we move our college out will be disappeared. There are lots of people on our buying who Dont Have Work or is here on behalf of the government his job is to show people how to make palm sugar. I know. There. Is looking for a worker named camber what are you. Going to write and the. Palm sugar is obtained from the sap known locally as toady of the palm Blossom Campbell has to climb to the top of the Twenty Meter Coconut Palms to collect it. I want to. Know what i did where you got. To come by has three bottles of told you so far. I see that thats enough for now you know youve. Come by i learned how to make palm sugar in thailand the government. Financed is training i think theyre going to have a good idea where. The kerry bus government also
paid for the equipment here. This is the body of fresh water or it was. Up until now locals have only used the fresh syrup for drinks now were going to fresh water a fresh start so. We want to have. You know the water. In the dark these so that we can crystallized. Become you know side by. The island of our buying is the Perfect Place for producing palm sugar there are thousands of Coconut Palms across the thirty seven kilometer island. To keep this we only have. You know cobra. Source of income. So i work on men
try to find ways with people to win more money and this is one of the one of their income no income for the fall by god it takes seven liters of sap to produce one kilogram of palm sugar. For your good work this is how you have to do it when youve reached this point the fire mustnt be too hot you have to stir it the whole time watch how i do it you have to push the toady up the side until it becomes hard and a powdery palm sugar from by on you said to be sold for five euros per kilo. And im going to continue with this work we can earn money that way and we can use that money to feed our families oh my god the way. The government has plans to export the palm sugar from around the world cup our secured important contacts at the worlds fair in milan in twenty fifteen. When i want to. This is the sugar from your palm sap this is what it looks like. You know you want to try it. And i mean what do you think of the new show that its not right now i mean going away youre going to have it. Do you like it or are you were not in it taste like candy this sugar is really different much more delicious your yeah. Traditional kerry bass recipes are increasingly fading from Memory Womens Rights Activist and nutritionist Graffitti Cross wants to fight that trained. How to eat food and how to prepare for when you say never do it before and do you think their lives and their heads to the end their own country and they never usually because they dont know it doubles and you can use these palm leaves in many different ways not just to swat flies but i will wrap them around the fish. Into two when you cook means nice a liquid comes out thats very good for the stomach i know but they any guy. Like this and rock the fish am come out and put it out i lay my lucky. Fish has been prepared like this on carry bass for generations. They usually did ride for before i do when they imported food comes and thats
where things has gone wrong because in god all i hear is that the hospitals four of people the sick people and would try to cut down the out the people to the sick you know and receive the red for short cut. Off identity india and therefore theyre not on the it cant be they can prevent. And if any of his if i may have been if not god but he nodded that you can eat every part of the squash the flour the stand the skin the seeds when you cut the squash make sure you dont cut the slices too thickly why do you want a lot of heads in our soup. All these heads have Medicinal Properties ive been. Yeah your body has taken these halves and you get healthier. Youre not just making a meal you are also making medicine. In medical good i met every
thought that i had with my two thirds of curiositys population consumes a staple diet of fish and imported rice a diet increasingly supplemented with high sugar foods leading to rising rates of obesity and diabetes. I thank Tang Graffitti case cooking class i know more about cooking now i have a young daughter at home. Cooked with a lot of herds and vegetables now so that she grows up healthy as you know i. Up until now weve only use these herbes for our customers we didnt know you could cook them but. You can find everything shes showing us in the jungle its great one. That i was. Nutritionist tanga fifty crosses mission is far from over she wants to share her knowledge in every village on our buying. Traditional Community Centers on kerry bus called my new structures provide shade and protection against strong winds and rain are buying is home to one of the largest money bars in the region the Environmental Protection organization kiri camp has invited representatives from. Several villages together there seeking ways to ensure possible Water Supplies. So it is so important that we know that what is fresh whats a screen and what is good for everyone so that we can all live longer as a care of this people. Climate activist of our city is also working to combat the salinisation of Drinking Water. Here you. Know you never bought it back some time same water flows into my well and floods it all the dirt gets in we have no water to drink and we get it one dollar ten out of
money but not in our groundwater used to be fresh and clean we could drink it today its salty and unpalatable. And if the wells near the sea are flooded quite regularly and become spoiled by the salt if we were to wash with that water it feel like washing and seawater and the money but. The salinity of Water Supplies isnt the only problem supplying clean Drinking Water is another Challenge Village representatives present their solutions. We opted for this pump to make it work we need equipment such as pipes to pump the well water to the houses. When. We get the one about we thought about what would be the best solution for everyone thats why we chose a Desalination Plant in the. But i guess we need a hand pump to supply ourselves with water in them but they dont. And i mean yes
you suggested a number of ideas its important that the solution is cheap and will work for a long time. Yeah i mean. Were going to lay out all of your criteria on the floor here. Which solution will win the village delegates are asked to vote thats an important part of the process says kerry cans Australian Development aid worker robert kane we know that this process is going to lead us to a project its really just getting people to think about the kinds of things the questions they should be asking very confronting with a new project or dont have bringing the community theres not much export that comes out of three of us so theres no foreign income coming in which is difficult because often need the material the money and i think you need some money to break the dependency cycle. Founded the Environmental Protection organization kerry can her goal is to support the people kerry bus in their battle against climate
change in care about us most of the time the priority need for our people is water and thats why we got water into these communities the what is the priority with bread water tends to collect or to harvest the rain. Over the next few months every extended family will be supplied with their own water tank and solar panels to generate Electricity Part of a program funded by international aid. People will be forced to leave if we do not step in right now today to help them feel like theyre just fake thats what a definition is all about for people to remain in the whole new homes in their own country no with their life and be a culture. I wouldnt imagine my people leaving to another country that is not there is because we have a very big connection with our land but moving. Away to somewhere where you do not belong to you you will always become my second class person in your heart you know
that you dont belong there. You. Were back on the main atoll of tara while. The Marine Training center is a window of opportunity to a better life for many young kiri bars up to One Hundred Fifty students train here every year to become seafarers Ship Mechanics and cooks. For the right. Only. Have the right. To drill at the Training Centers strict as is the morning roll call. Ninety six. Ninety seven today for. Not back in during the break for my stop or thats a one hour its. What the five if thats you know i long for one hour. The what its meant to you in them to see just to scare you so if the chain is found if youre going to use long fingernails not wearing the chief or not the former said for improper shape thats to be punished the change has to be punished for one of. The trainees have to rehearse a Docking Maneuver on the deck of a Training Ship today among them is twenty five year old tom where are. So and be at this at this theyre. A risk ive been right so lets go through glass where lets go through first. Seafarers from carrie in demand particularly on german vessels six Shipping Companies from hamburg have offices on
tara supervised by andrew hynes and he holds the locals in high esteem and finds jobs for them on ships from all around the world. Has just had a firstly that people who grow up on these islands have a strong connection to water when theyve been fishing and spending time on the water since childhood thats strong in my experience it takes just one care a bus to do a job that needs to filipinos these fifteen months are a process they have to be on time be clean and well dressed because theyll be confronted with a completely different world and its this year and a complex and lot of it that is. The trainees have to work hard for their dream all week long the demands a great. Time aware only caesars wife and one year old daughter of the weekends. He currently shares a dorm room with nineteen other sailors. This
is my bed and thats my mattress made of palm leaves in a bag and i get. It back again as i roll out the mattress every night. This is what it looks like. This is how i sleep. Like this. For the negative m. T. C. You know sorry but i chose to train as a Merchant Marine because it gives me the chance to provide for my family its my dream to continue my training after i finish this program and now we are now and i dont know. The Training Center has a good reputation on kerry bus but even this modern complex faces increasing bouts of flooding. As you can see the entrance to the basin has become blocked by sand and. Built up here overnight because
a small section of the same has broken. Homes on the net the water was a bit higher than usual and lacking or insufficient Maintenance Cost it to break out all adults would get out of all the current deposits at the sand here and have to hear. People mess about with everything just like they do in europe driving along this causeway you can see that the Water Exchange is restricted to just a small but you all the water from the lagoon has to squeeze through. Human interference with nature with disastrous consequences not least because its changed Ocean Currents The Causeway is a costly never ending construction site. The
primary school in bonn ricky every morning begins with a prayer more than ninety percent of Kerry Buses Population is christian. Now. School is compulsory for children between the ages of six and fourteen. Yes. Ok lets hear from you what you would write. In. The world you. Would. Like to. Do. This year. These are the choices. So what does the future hold for kerry about his children its a subject addressed in primary schools. And we want to alert the children to whats going on here and how they can deal with the problem most of the children a scad of Climate Change and of the what the. The childrens fear is different from those of their teacher. But theyre all very concrete. Shes scared of the future too. And i know my enemy we can emigrate to another country or confront the problem and live with it i always tell my students that we have to find ways of preventing so a live version on the net and i got the way we have to build seawalls and plant mangroves we mustnt cut down on trees anymore on the way up on. The you know the children have drawn pictures to illustrate what they think will happen as a result of Global Warming our beaches will be washed away this boy says when using two. Much fuel. In this girls picture the land is simple merged everyone she says is swimming in the water because the ocean is washed away the land if sea levels continue to rise she says well all die. These children are growing up with a palpable fear of the future. This girl tells us her home was flooded just last week it happened while she was sleeping her mother woke her up and carried her out of the house. You know this girl says shes very scared about Climate Change she believes many people are responsible for it as a child theres nothing she can do about it. The village upon ricky has become increasingly susceptible to flooding after heavy rainfall often the high water lasts for days. Trainee seafarer tom aware and his wife betty. Have bought a small house here. You and i were the one were going to live here in the future i mean im currently living with my wife and my daughter with my parents but well move in soon once ive completed my training at the Marine Center and im earning money by working on a ship i want to start raising my children here and thats you money getting. More. You know about what i want to have
a garden here but i have to plow the soil first i want to build a fence and plant Sweet Potatoes and tapioca maybe lettuce to no one. As a crew member on a large Container Ship where i will be able to earn up to Seven Hundred u. S. Dollars a month that will place in theory buses middle class. And im very excited to be moving here im so proud of him when he gets a job and starts earning money i will be able to build something and have a bigger family if he didnt have a job wed have a lot of problems we would be able to lead this life im very happy that i am a sinner who knew you knew and. When Night Falls On Tara the fisherman sometimes recall a centuries old Fishing Method. Taillights and light a Three Metre Torch made of palm leaves on the beach to michael the warm light of
the file those small tasty reef fish into the shallow water. That theyre going to its not like it used to be when there were fewer people here. Population growth has fueled an increase in fishing because of rising demand for me and i remember many fishermen now use neon lights to attract fish. Its rather tired writer and not io catch any fish with their traditional Fishing Method these days. You. Can go to one of the ive only quarter to one row. Now that the you know
its hard to catch fish those days and i feel the current has changed. I got i think i dont have begun my to. The Fisherman Wonder whether Climate Change is to blame for that to. The Fisheries Ministry of kerry my ass marine biologist. Has been investigating the health of the coral reefs around tarawa and the surrounding atoll so more than ten years using Measuring Tapes he and his team regularly monitor coral growth and health. What were seeing is the more Popular Coral is now are the ones that are adapting and more resilient to change into an increase in temperature this hour buying more in the hot temperatures this spreading over which is ok in assisted cars and im just reading there are
a lot of them. But its only its like survival of the fittest. The polyps that make up the stony corals are among the winners of Climate Change they seem to be particularly happy in the waters around carry us because theyre so resilient to the change thats why theyre in really improving their coral cover is massive even they could i mean so. You know storms and stuff like that. Hope for kerry but only healthy coral reefs can grow with the rising sea levels their natural breakwaters and provide important protection for the islands during major storm surges. Here in south and always an urban area as a lot of factors affecting the way of construction every structure. The main thing is that it is rubbish since theres a very high population years out that always causes rubbish yeah waste. Into the forest thats putting heavy pressure. As a result there are signs of degradation among we could coral species in many reefs around tara while. The population is set to Double Entendre over the next Twenty Years Climate Coordinator Choi Eating and the government of kerry bos face a huge challenge. Unless we find a solution now to address this problem you know if we were to to top up the land yes and you know kind of reclaim it you know that may be an option. The government has even considered moving its people on to artificial floating islands futuristic visions and exorbitantly expensive designs by international architects. Why is a period of cost and development and its very hard to do with the lack of resources that we have science tells us the over time i. Its something that were
very hard to accept right now it may be that in just fifty years jerry bass will no longer exist it could be the first country to be wiped off the map by Climate Change theres still hope very small window of hope i guess yeah pride is is something that will keep you going maybe the end not good for your best yeah so i. Guess there will be to invest. My name is along that i love about her. And the mexican conductor. To. Come with me and meet great musicians and friends from all over the world. Musical
homecoming in mexico among the phones for Forty Thousand fans and with a good friend and famous singer natalee allow for to come. To. These great suggestion to make a great vintage not french wine but the british its like coming saying. Thanks to enthusiastic business and Climate Change. While france battles heat and Drought Britain is expanding its main young. Elite