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Even if the locals could plant successfully, there is now not enough rain to keep even simple kitchen gardens alive.Scenes of Funafuti: a typical home, and freshly caught fishThe Frank family spend around AU$200 (£105) a fortnight on groceries, a bill that keeps rising as the fruit on the trees that ring their modest home – breadfruit, bananas and pandanus – fail to ripen, and fall to the sandy ground, inedible and rotten.The fish too, the stuff of life here, have become suspect. When fish infected with these ciguatera toxins are consumed by humans, it causes an immediate and sometimes severe illness: vomiting, fevers and diarrhoea.At the local hospital, a specialist department has been set up to study and manage climate change-related illnesses.Around ten Tuvaluans present with ciguatera poisoning every week, accounting for about 10% of the weekly case-load of climate-related illnesses. But I believe that younger generations intend to migrate for the sake of the future generations.”During storm surges or the highest tides, the Pacific Ocean bubbles up from the sandy soil under Enna Sione’s small yellow house. Initially a non-believer in climate change, like many older people on the island, Setani has slowly become convinced of the science as her daily life becomes tougher with every erratic movement of the sea.Nausaleta Setani with her nephew in a makeshift structure they use for sleeping, near the Funafuti lagoon“The weather is changing very quickly, day to day, hour to hour,” says Setani, 54, paradoxically soothed and disturbed by the ocean lapping metres away from her hut.“I have been learning the things that are happening are the result of man, especially [from] other countries. Suria Eusala Paufolau (left, or above on mobile), acting chief of public health, says cases of fish poisoning began to climb a decade ago; around the same time the weather really started to go haywire.Climate-related illnesses that have increased on par with the changing weather include influenza, fungal diseases, conjunctivitis, and dengue fever, according to the hospital’s research.Higher daily temperatures are also putting people at daily risk of dehydration, heatstroke and heat rashes, Paufolau says.“Generally the local population does not see the link between climate change and health. All rights reserved. Rising seas are on the verge of swallowing two of the tiny archipelago’s nine islands, and the encroaching waves haunt locals’ dreams “The sea is eating all the sand,” says Frank, 32, dressed in a pink stretchy T-shirt and faded sarong.“Before, the sand used to stretch out far, and when we swam we could see the sea floor, and the coral.
But up close, the fragility of the land reveals itself. It is a plan that would cost US$300m (£233m), and that so far has no funding.Fongafale island, home to the Tuvaluan capital, FunafutiEvacuating the islands is the last resort, says Tuvalu’s prime minister, Enele Sopoaga, despite frequent talk from Pacific neighbours that Tuvaluans will become the world’s first climate-change refugees.Many government officials openly express anger at the “I think they hate us,” says Soseala Tinilau (below), the director of the Environment ministry.Tinilau is referring to the cheerful burning of coal by the US and Australia, among others, despite a recent report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changewarning that global warming must be “The world want to ignore us. But I understand other countries do what is best for their people. © www.alluringworld.com, 2020. When planes aren’t expected, children ride their bikes and play volleyball on the country’s airstrip, while young courting couples take lazy laps on their motorbikes.In the afternoons, people snooze in hammocks for hours, and light campfires on the beaches to fry fish and keep the mosquitoes away.
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