Cyclones are becoming increasingly intense.
So this is a cyclone that hit Samoa recently, which is incredibly devastating.
In places like Fiji and some other islands around in that sort of part of
the Pacific, there's been quite a lot of relocation happening already.
And the government's able to fund the relocation in a place like Fiji.
You can see that the government has decided just put sort of little green
boxes on the hill.
And I don't know whether they actually talked to the villagers about what sort of
houses they might like.
But I think this what they've got, and
they didn't have much choice about in the matter.
So there's all sorts of changes on all sorts of levels within the Pacific.
And Pacific Islanders are pretty unanimous, I think,
in wanting to make sure the rest of the world knows that they're having incredibly
difficult problems, incredibly difficult challenges ahead of them.
But also that they're not just victims,
that they're doing what they can to make a difference to their own lives.
And to make sure that they're not contributing to
the emission of greenhouse gases, and that
many islands have decided that they're gonna be going carbon neutral by 2020.
There's a lot of them who have decided they're gonna be completely sustainable in
terms of energy and also throughout the measures that they're implementing.
Replanting mangroves to protect their shorelines,
all sorts of measures to reduce pollution and degradation of their environments.
You can see here, this is Majuro.
This is one of the main parts of the atolls in the Marshall Islands.
You can see the landform here makes it pretty clear about why there's problems
with rising sea levels.
If you're living in a place like this, it makes it pretty difficult.
You can also see why navigation is such an important part and
living with the sea in an effective way.
And with things that really sum up how much people have been able to understand
and read their environment.
And how every little movement of the currents as they intersect,
and each detail of the particular birds they see.
And the scent that come in the wind, and all these different things about their
environment as they were traveling through it.
And now becoming unpredictable and slightly unknown to them,
and it's unsettling.
And it means that the ability to predict the coming weather, which makes
a huge difference on whether you're gonna go and make a canoe voyage or not.
Whether you're gonna be able to go out and fish the way you'd like to.
When you're gonna be able to fish next is now becoming a little unsettled,
and they're not sure about their environment anymore.
It's increasingly difficult to predict.