Greenland poet Aka Niviana's way of life is disappearing as her country thaws, while the subsequent meltwater threatens Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and her fellow Marshall Islanders thousands of miles away. Their joint trip to the melting glaciers inspired a climate call to armsHigh up on a melting Greenland glacier, at the end of this summer from climate hell,two young women shout a poem above the roar of the wind. Aka Niviana, grew up on the northern coast of Greenland; as its ice inexorably thaws, her traditional way of life disappears. And the water that melts off that ice sheet is drowning the home of Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner and everyone else in her home nation, the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. One poet watches her heritage turn to water; the other watches that same water sweep up the beaches of her country and into the houses of her friends. The destruction of one's homeland is the inevitable destruction of the other's. Continue reading...
High ice and hard truth: the poets taking on climate change
12. září 2018 16:30
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Zdroj: The Guardian