Kiribati – A Climate Change Reality
Boobu Tioram, a resident of the Pacific island of Kirabati, took time out from reinforcing a seawall in front of his newly built house to speak with UNDP about what climate change has meant to his way of life. I have moved three times, every three years I have moved, he said, standing on the beach a few metres from his home. Tioram gestured toward a point about 20 metres into the sea, and explained that his first house once stood on a spot now covered in swelling ocean waves. Each time he has moved farther inland, and each time the sea has followed. Im not sure how long Ill be [in this house], Tioram continued. That depends on how strong my seawall here can withstand high tide waves. UNDP believes that it is the developing world that stands to lose the most, and which is already losing out, as the effects of climate change edge toward the catastrophic. As climate negotiations open in Copenhagen, worlds away from this tiny Pacific nation consisting of 33 low lying atolls, it is important to keep in mind that for the people of Kirabati, and other poor island and coastal nations, funds for adaptation and not only prevention must top the international to-do list. Carbon trading will be of no special consequence to us, so there has got to be some very special provisions for the victims, said Kirabati President Anote Tong. Not the potential victims, but the victims, because we are the victims, so there has to be some very deep soul searching. Kirabati is no more than four …
*Disclaimer: I do not own any clips or music. All clips and music belong to their respectfull owners. I do not earn any money with this video. This video is for enjoyment purposes only. Here is another lyrics video I made with Metallica. I just got the album today (as of 3/17/2007) and I felt like posting my favorite song from it on youtube! This only took me 2 hours to make 🙂 it was, honestly, a worthy 2 hours of my life. By the way, I understand the girl/phone joke. I know it was pretty ridiculous, but whatever. I know I wrote ‘I’m bored’ in the solo, but that didn’t mean I got bored of the solo. I was expressing my current thoughts when I wrote that while I was making the video. You know, it’s a bit of work :PI know I messed up on some of the lyrics, but it shouldn’t matter too much. I can’t go back to change those errors now, unless I want to delete the video with a good haul of views. I know that some of you don’t like the quotes, and you’d rather have pictures instead. I put pictures at the beginning but I deleted them from my documents afterward so they got deleted. I got lazy right then and didn’t want to find them again, so I did something a little different instead. I know that before the second solo, there is a “Fix me!” shout right before then that I forgot to put in. My bad, I didn’t know what was being said there. I was looking at the booklet that came with the CD for lyrics, and it didn’t show what was said there. If you want to, go ahead and shout out …
