On this edition of Your Call’s One Planet Series, environmentalist journalist Christina Gerhardt discusses her new book, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean, which weaves together essays, maps, art, and poetry to show us—and make us see—island nations in a warming world and the impacts of sea level rise on islands around the world.
Island nations have contributed the least to CO2 emissions and global warming, but they are suffering the brunt of it. Pacific Island nations are responsible for 0.03 percent of global emissions, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Figures for islands in the Caribbean Sea are in a similar range.
Christina Gerhardt highlights Indigenous and Black voices and communities working to save their nations, histories, cultures, and languages.
Guest:
Christina Gerhardt, environmental journalist, Associate Professor at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley, and author of Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
Web Resources:
The Guardian: Why rising sea levels pose existential threat to the Bahamas – extract
Euro news: Tuvalu is recreating itself in the metaverse as climate change threatens to wipe it off the map
Grist: Erosion and sea-level rise are coming for their Louisiana home. They’re staying anyway.
