The Devastating Effects of Climate Change that No One is Talking About

"As rising waters eat away at the shores of islands and coastal regions, they also erode the transmission of cultural practices. Communities in affected regions are increasingly forced to uproot themselves from their homelands and face the choice of migrating and dispersing to new lands, threatening the connections they maintain with their traditional ways of life...

The vast promise of the digital world can be one part of the answer this challenge — as young people connect on the Internet, they can also connect with their culture, and help incorporate it even more strongly into their identity."

Read more from our Medium article at https://medium.com/@island_ark/the-devastating-eff...