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[StephanieVanbryce]

America's first climate refugees

› One family's great escape

This is Part ONE, There are Two other parts.

just a small snip.

But exile is undeniable. A report by the US Army Corps of Engineers predicted that the highest point in the village – the school of Warner's nightmare – could be underwater by 2017. There was no possible way to protect the village in place, the report concluded.

If Newtok can not move its people to the new site in time, the village will disappear. A community of 350 people, nearly all related to some degree and all intimately connected to the land, will cease to exist, its inhabitants scattered to the villages and towns of western Alaska, Anchorage and beyond.

It's a choice confronting more than 180 native communities in Alaska, which are flooding and losing land because of the ice melt that is part of the changing climate.

Videos Plus transcripts and articles.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2013/may/13/newtok-alaska-climate-change-refugees

You want to ask, How can this be happening? When we have all the knowledge in the World to stop this or at
.......... least put the damn BRAKES ON it! .... Such a shame! .... .. we've just turned our backs AND our faces to it.... .