Kiribati in trouble



Every day the state goes under water

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Life for Ataia's grandchildren

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  Life for Ataia's grandchildren Kiribati is at a crossroads and families like Ataia's face an uncertain future. In one possible scenario, Ataia and his family are forced to resettle on a remote Fijian island, 2,000 km away.  The land is poor but they must learn how to farm. His children's children risk forgetting their Kiribati culture and language for that of their host country. In another, the international community meets its carbon targets and pours resources into Pacific atolls.  The I-Kiribati fight to adapt to rising seas and changing weather patterns.  Whichever scenario plays out, it seems inevitable that Ataia's grandchildren will have a life harder than him. But he hopes they can sing the same songs in the same language as their grandfather.
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Kiribati: SLOWLY DROWNING Kiribati, an island republic in the South Pacific, is sinking under the sea. The indigenous inhabitants can do nothing to stop it. They feel the world has left them in the lurch. Blog b y Carsten Stormer, 2010 and Translated from German and edited by Roger Gwynn. The Reverend Baranite Kirata is sitting in his fishing boat. He takes a nylon line out of a toolbox, feels the hook with the tip of his forefinger and throws the line into the ocean. “In the old days we used to live very simply here,” Baranite declares. “Our community was quite happy as it was, with no telephones, no television sets, just the sea and the fish.” The old days, meaning just a few years earlier. Nowadays modern things are coming in, imported from China, Japan, Australia — TV sets, fridges, computers, mobile phones, motorbikes, and quantities of tinned food, plastic containers, plastic bags. Rubbish ends up on the beaches, where it sits and rots or floats around on th...
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