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...most Harvard students, dealing with climate change means changing desk lamps to energy-saving bulbs or recycling their class handouts. For the citizens of Kiribati, an island nation of 100,000 in the Pacific, it means a full-scale abandonment of the island and the eventual disintegration of their culture...
...Kiribati’s president, Anote Tong, delivered a stirring plea to a packed audience at the Science Center yesterday in which he urged audience members to focus their attention on the already salient repercussions that rising sea levels have on inhabitants of island countries...
...Kiribati, which was once known as the Gilbert Islands, comprises 32 atolls—small coral islands—and one virtually unscalable rock island dispersed across 4,000 kilometers of the Pacific Ocean. Most of the land is situated at an elevation of less than two meters and is therefore particularly at risk from rises in sea-level caused by climate change...
...nice, but it’d also be nice to discover the parallels myself instead of having them shoved down my proverbial throat.This leads me to my confession: while admittedly a bit of a hater, I am a lover of Andrea Levy’s “Small Island.” I picked up the novel this summer because my mother was reading it for her book club. It’s hard not to compare Levy to Smith: both are black, female British authors of Jamaican heritage. More importantly, both produce works that focus on counteracting...
Oluwadamilola O. Akinfenwa ’12, a native of the Houston suburb of Sugarland, had just wrapped up his first week at Harvard when Hurricane Ike started barrelling through Galveston Island and Houston on Friday. Akinfenwa found himself unable to contact his family when 110-mile-per-hour winds disabled most means of communication in and outside of the city. Not until Monday night did he finally get through to his family and hear they were safe. Southeast Texas may be almost 2,000 miles away from Cambridge, but for some Harvard students from the Lone Star state including...