UNITED NATIONS, United States — UN chief Antonio Guterres warned on Wednesday that surging sea levels are creating 'a rising tide of misery,' as a coalition of small island nations declared that their sovereignty must be respected even if their lands are subsumed.
UNITED NATIONS, United States — UN chief Antonio Guterres warned on Wednesday that surging sea levels are creating 'a rising tide of misery,' as a coalition of small island nations declared that their sovereignty must be respected even if their lands are subsumed.
' These effects are already being felt, he said — pointing to hundreds of island families in Panama forced to relocate to the mainland, and people in Saint Louis, Senegal, who are abandoning their homes, schools, businesses and mosques to the encroaching tide.Feleti Teo, prime minister of the tiny Pacific archipelago of Tuvalu, added that rising seas pose 'an existential threat to our economies, to our culture and heritage, and to the land that nourished our ancestors for centuries.
Chief Warns Of 'Rising Tide Of Misery' From Rising Seas
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