Mar 16 2009
Drowning Islands
Lately, when people ask us where we’re heading, on our family’s adventure, I tell them that I can’t decide whether I want my kids to see glaciers before they melt, or islands before they’re drowned.
Drowning islands warn of future perils for ‘environmental refugees’
Apparently I have less time to decide than I thought.
It seems to me that to argue about how many and how much and numbers and quotas is truly to fiddle while Rome burns, and I think that it really is about time that someone figured out that environmental awareness and human rights do intersect.
Maybe they’ll figure that out at Copenhagen; they’ve surely already figured it out in the Carterets.
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