Poor Nations Facing Calamity Decry the Great Climate ‘Con’

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The great climate migration has reached the South Pacific. On Fanalei, one of the eastern Solomon Islands, rising waters and howling storms have made life unbearable, observed Simon Mundy, author of “Race for Tomorrow,” a book he wrote after visiting 26 countries to record the spreading climate crisis.

Fanalei’s church lies in ruins. And as tides sweep away thatched-roof homes along the shore, residents are escaping to a nearby island, where their presence is causing strife.