A climate of Crisis: Global Warming and the island South Pacific

Global Warming threatens the physical and cultural survival of several South Pacific societies. They are innocent victims of the northern hemisphere's 300-year orgy of fossils fuel burning in the name of industrialisation. The island South Pacific, 25 countries and territories covering only half a million square kilometres in 31 million sq km of ocean, played virtually no part in building the climate bomb. The region has never been a major user of coal and oil, burning largely wood. So it has contributed very little to the build-up of carbon dioide in the atmosphere, The reason for the threat of climate warming. Even today industry in the South Pacific islands is sparse, cars are few, and most people live and work without air conditioning.(3 copies)