This is the biggest headline on the top of the front page of this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald:
The story is exactly what it sounds like.
Australia is being pressed to come to the rescue of drowning Pacific islands which face a homeless crisis due to rising sea levels caused by global warming.
With predictions sea levels could rise by up to 32 centimetres [more than a foot] by 2050, a number of Pacific islands could be rendered uninhabitable within a decade.
At risk are portions of Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, and Fiji.
This has been steadily building for years. Thousands of people have already been forced to flee their homes, and some whole islands are already under water.
It must be nice to be a U.S. "conservative" and live in a dreamworld where this simply isn’t happening.