Posted on 09/25/2018 7:00:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Namatakula is a small village in Fiji found on a long stretch of the country’s most beautiful coastline: the Coral Coast. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists flock from around the world to this 80 kilometre stretch of white sand and turquoise water.
But the village of only 2,522 inhabitants is known for more than its sun and sand. This tiny place has also produced some of the best rugby players in the world. Nemani Nadolo and two brothers, Chris and Tevita Kuridrani, grew up in the village and now play in the top leagues in France and Australia.
But today, climate change is gradually causing the beaches of Namatakula and the Coral Coast to disappear. Crashing waves and rising sea levels have begun to slowly eat away the traditional training grounds of the Fijian rugby player. More and more kids in Namatakula and elsewhere are forced to play inland, often in bare feet on rough, dusty and unwelcoming terrain.
For many small island states and coastal communities, there is little choice to adjust to a shifting environment. As Kuridrani puts it, “All we can do here in the Pacific is to adapt.”
Planting mangroves is just one way to adapt to some of the impacts of climate change in coastal communities. To ensure that developing countries are ready to face the transformative effects of climate change, UN Environment and UNDP are helping governments integrate a range of adaptation strategies into national development plans through the National Adaptation Plan Global Support Programme.
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Fiji hasn’t tipped over? That’s a lot of extra people on the edge of the island.
Hmmm...... French Rugby players?
Sounds too rough and dirty for Froggies
Fijians are some of the most wonderful people in the world.
As far as I’m concerned, they walk on water and will have no problems if the ocean rises.
Bullshit
Don’t be ridicules. That was Guam...
I clicked on the link to view the before pictures; it was as I expected (non-existent). I like to use Fort Boyard as a barometer, given the accurate plans from Napoleon’s era coupled with pictures showing the tides spanning over a century.
I recently wrote a public post on social media as a preemptive strike against the expected post-Florence claims, correctly-attributing east coast sea level rise not to climate change as they would have us believe, but to Glacial Rebound. Some ignoramus flagged it as “hate speech”.
FB restored the post, but it’s clear that trolls are working hard to promote the fallacy that the normal state of the Earth is to have ice caps (it is not). The ice age will continue to “end” for thousands of years and there’s not a damned thing humans can do about it.
The question of “climate change” is an IQ test...a highly-effective one.
Don’t all islands just float around? In fact, I’ll bet if they limited tourism, Fiji would bob up like a cork. Problem solved. Know anyone that writes grants?
Sounds like there’s trouble in the hills of Fiji.
Shorelines are dynamic systems. They are constantly changing.
Go to youtube and watch videos of Longshore Drift.
You would know. :)
A moose once bit my sister... due to climate change.
whilst in fiji, don’t forget to wade on over to dave lister’s hotdog stand. he can use the business - he has to pay for stilts for all his sheep
It’s called erosion.
We ‘must believe’ our overlords.
Rugby is Oceania’s (Fiji, Samoa, New Zealand, etc.) “national sport.” Polynesia will think of a way. I’ve watched them play. Amazing.
While we’re at it, climate change is responsible for:
1. Men’s decreasing fertility.
2. Cancer
3. Dark energy
4. Dark Matter
5. The fact that colleges are peopled with folks shouldn’t be in a real college.
6. Journalists
7. Politicians
8. Stormy Daniels
That’s your list for today, folks.
Tune in tomorrow for more “climate change fault” lists compiled by folks who failed science for poets and went into journalism and the UN.
I’d like to get a farm there for sheep and cows to raise horses with a hot dog stand side business.
Thanks. I wasn’t aware of Longshore Drift, but also not surprised. Coastal erosion is constant, but this is new to me. Explains a lot of my observations of coastlines about which I never asked questions.
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