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An impossible choice: what does the world owe the Pacific?

10.16.2021 - By The GuardianPlay

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In the final episode of our three-part series, we speak to Pacific politicians fighting it out with much larger, wealthier and more heavily polluting countries on the world stage; Pacific leaders facing the gargantuan task of attempting to relocate entire villages, infrastructure and even burial grounds as communities are threatened; and legal experts about what options Pacific countries have for compensation, to find out what the future is for the Pacific in the face of the climate crisis. An impossible choice: when climate change arrives at your door – podcast episode 1 An impossible choice: leave your island or fight to stay? – podcast episode 2 In Samoa we are born into land, climate change threatens to take it away from us ‘My father will go down like the captain of the Titanic’: life on the Pacific’s disappearing islands

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