Climate Change: A Ticking Time Bomb
Maurice Erasito | Project Survival Pacific International Team | Fiji | 31st October 2011 |
Bula (greetings in Fijian) everyone.
I have just joined the Project Survival Pacific International Team as a Policy and Networking Consultant.
This is the first time I have joined a group of like minded people passionate about our environment and I am looking forward to doing all I can to contribute towards the great work the team has already been doing for some time. I try to live life as green as possible and have been a self practicing environmentalist for some time. I use only energy saving lights, converted my hot water system from using power from the grid to solar power. I even have a compost heap in the back yard.
Going back home to Rotuma in Fiji after more than 20 years I noticed huge changes in the environment. The sea seemed to come more inland and some places more evident then others. Much of the surfaces in the sea near the sandy beaches were not floored by the lovely white sand but by coral. Abandoned homes as people resettle inland afraid of a potential Tsunami with more Tsunami threats in the past three years than in the past 100 years.
However, Rotuma is not as nearly bad as some of our Pacific neighbors. A little more then 10 hours away by boat we have Tuvalu and a little further is Kiribati. Two neighbors who suffer far worse as a result of rising sea levels due to Climate Change.
I feel as if we are living on a ticking time bomb, and time is already running out. That is why I have put my hands up to be part of Project Survival Pacific. I look forward to doing all I can to support Project Survival Pacific achieve as much as possible all its objectives.
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