campaigners
Campaigners' voices are added to the community testimonies, where people speak out about pressing environmental issues that affect them
US government position on climate change
Elizabeth Bast Friends of the Earth International in an interview with Real World radio
Argentina - The Salado River has taken everything away
On April 28, 2003, the Salado river burst its banks flooding and submerging Santa Fe City within a few hours. Experts concluded that the rains preceding the disaster were the highest on record causing the "collapse of the natural course of drainage waters". It was not the first huge flood in Argentina, but undoubtedly it left the biggest number of climate refugees: more than 40,000 people without a roof, without clothes, without a history.
Ghana - we have all consented to the gradual disappearance of our human race
Ghana is currently going through energy crisis with estimates that it could cost the country’s economy millions of dollars. The 2006-2007 crisis has taken most Ghanaians by surprise. It should not. We have been here before, in 1983, 1994 and 1997-98 with increasing severity. The troubling rationing system, the slowdown in industrial activity, and the job and income losses have all been faced by the people of Ghana before. What is really surprising and troubling in each of these episodes is the gap between the magnitude of the crisis and the smallness of the politics we have.
Papua New Guinea - these islands are ours and our future generations should not have to leave
Steph from Australia on the Carteret islands
