Jon Lewis: Portraits from the Edge: Kiribati - Putting a Face to Climate Change Lewis spent five mon
Jon Lewis: Portraits from the Edge: Kiribati - Putting a Face to Climate Change Lewis spent five months of 2009 in the small Republic of Kiribati, a series of 33 atolls in the Equatorial Pacific. Kiribati is home to the people most vulnerable to climate change on Earth. It’s predicted that in 30 to 40 years their land will succumb to rising sea levels and climate change. Storm surges, freakish waves, salination of fresh water wells and lands, un-predictable weather and tidal increases, are all contributing to the country’s physical demise. As yet there is no policy from industrial countries, or the UN, as to our collective responsibilities to people such as the I Kiribati. Where will these environmentally displaced people migrate to, and how many? Who will be their host countries? Lewis spent six months travelling through the atolls of Kiribati, recording his experiences of the people and place and presents 46 images portraying the vibrant social system and culture. The implications the loss of home- lands will have on this vibrant social system and culture are the central question of this series, and the lack of response from industrial countries to participate in a series plan of action for climate refugees of the future. -- source link
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