Kiribati under threat by rising seasThis article by Sandi Keane, originally published at Independent Australia on 29 November 2013, highlights a problem that will continue to grow in statue as sea levels rise, and as major extreme weather events such as flooding, droughts or storms cause people to flee to relative safety and seek asylum. Climate refugees or environmental refugees are a direct result of the lack of action on a global level of mitigating greenhouse gases to moderate climate change.
THIS WEEK, the High Court of New Zealand delivered a blow to a largely ignored asylum seeker problem that has been quietly bleeding and threatening to hemorrhage into a full-scale global catastrophe within two or three decades.
