Will Fleeing Home be the Last Resort as the Climate Changes?

Will Fleeing Home be the Last Resort as the Climate Changes?

14 January 2014 – IRIN

Salustiano Albert has lived in Palau, an archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean comprising over 500 islands, for more than three decades. Part of his family home, where three generations live, used to be flooded regularly by the tides, but in the past few years his entire house has been inundated. They survive by selling steamed sticky cakes made from taro root cooked with coconut, and have been dipping into their limited savings to repair the damage. Relocating is not an option. “This is my home,” he says firmly. “We just cope… and carry on.”