The world, the planet earth; a sphere full of life, populated by human beings and thousands of other species; but these first have the ability to develop their thinking, they have the ability to discern, to think. What is happening on our planet ?. A world that seems to leave more and more aside what really matters: our environment, our home; It seems that we do not worry much about those around us, it is true that the world is changing and global warming, which for many is a lie or a post truth, manifests itself more and more.

Of course it will not be an immediate reality, nor a catastrophe in the middle of the century taken from a fictional story, but nature has a voice and it does so through the natural disasters that are increasingly powerful and constant. Our planet is screaming for help and what for many is the life cycle; since breakpoints and climate changes have existed in eras and are not preventable, it is true that we can mitigate their impact with new technologies, which perhaps have not yet been discovered. For many companies to say that global warming is a lie is a strategy and for other companies to sell the product "green" or new forms of energy production of course it is also a market, so I can only say, let's think a little : nobody is a secret that the planet moves with money, but do not blind us, that the truth is that you are feeling the fury of mother nature (without sounding hippie).

For many, the word "global warming" may sound funny, as many will say; that is not going to happen yet; So, will we wait for it to pass to look for mitigating measures? or we look for measures that compensate from today the possible impacts of a future, are we so selfish? For some it is a lie, it sounds funny; but for others, this is a reality:

Tuvalu and Kiribati

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It does not sound, right?, in some post back I point a bit to Tuvalu as the first country that is sinking because of global warming, but it turns out that it was companion; Kiribati and Tuvalu are two small islands of Oceania, which can and are disappearing from the map because of global warming, which for many is a lie or a distant reality already manifested on some inhabitants of the planet earth.

The reality that once Atlantis existed is not so far, is not it? The legend of a sunken island is becoming a reality; Many things like volcanic eruptions that emerge from islands to the Earth's surface show that natural phenomena have existed that can permanently modify certain points of the planet. Climate change is something that can not be avoided, and it is true that it is transforming the earth; increasing water levels in the seas and oceans fight that intensifies in the small islands that already name. Of course, many already know why this increase in sea levels and is due to the melting of the polar ice caps, something that happened once approximately 20,000 years ago the end of the well-known "ice age", the The struggle of the governments of these two islands focuses mainly on asking the countries to reduce their CO2 emissions.

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Are these two islands going to disappear?

Kiribati and Tuvalu are located at sea level, and yes; they are in danger of disappearing, the increase in sea levels are already doing their job disappearing some parts of the islands, Tuvalu in the last 10 years has lost about 3 meters of sea front, and many specialists calculate that for 50 years And these islands will not exist.

The governments of these islands have had extensive debates even to the point of wanting to sue countries like the United States and Australia for the excessive emission of greenhouse gases, the people of these two Islands are suffering the consequences of our lack of importance towards the planet earth In Kiribati the houses are regularly flooded, these two small countries are only looking to contemplate a better future. Even without going very far the head of state of Kiribati bought 20 square kilometers in the islands of Fiji area called "refuge of the Kiribatians", without a doubt for now the settlers see the solution as the closest exile.

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Climate refugees, a reality that is not far from becoming true

For the rulers of these islands especially Tuvalu, emigration is not the solution, since they have been mentioned a possible re-location to the inhabitants in other countries, but the environmental reality is different, since this will not stop the eminent global warming . These environmental problems have raised questions about a possible crisis in the future: Climate refugees, a term that does not exist in international rights; where only projects that aim to protect displaced persons due to environmental causes have been presented at the moment.

Personally I believe that this is a reality that already exists, many people from these islands have mobilized throughout the world fleeing our devastating use of natural resources and destroying them. Even many have left after high-impact natural catastrophes have happened.

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Increase in natural disasters

Floods; high tides, the countries of the Pacific are going through strong climate phenomena and have been completely devastating in many cases. Vanuatu in 2014 was hit by a strong cyclone never thought and the archipelago was completely devastated do you still think that global warming is a game ?.

These small countries with an underdeveloped economy are facing the earth and at the hands of unconscious human beings, this is something that surrounds them and their main struggle will always be against pollution; what is very incoherent is that these small places do not contaminate a thousandth of the percentages that pollute mega-developed countries and are the smallest and weakest ones that fight against the consequences. Development is important, but always take it hand in hand with sustainability, we must be more aware of our actions, leave our environmental precariousness and become protectors of our home, which for Plato in his description of Atlantis today is the reality of many countries like Tuvalu and Kiribati.

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