Reading from Carl Safina’s book, published in 2011,The View from Lazy Point; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World; we are in Palau in the western Pacific, meeting the people who have been there for many many generations, facing new problems in a world of rising sea water.
“Through the silhouettes of mangroves and coconut palms, the moon rises full and lovely. But that moon pulls a pucker of sea around the world, and as the tide rises we watch Leonard’s backyard disappear. Soon he and his neighbors are sloshing around in shin-deep saltwater that rises up the wheels of parked cars and laps at front doors.”
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