Photo: Skylar Clark. Retrieved from unicef.org
“Rising sea level due to climate change is not caused by the activities of small countries like mine but a result of the actions of bigger countries. While it may not affect them directly, the impact of climate change is affecting our people ten times more.”
Kaselehlie! My name is Skylar Clark and this is my story of how rising sea level is slowly swallowing my island home, taking with it my childhood memories and my father’s ancestral home.
I am a seventeen-year-old high school student living in Pohnpei, one of the four states in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and every time someone talks about climate change, my heart sinks, just like some of these islands in Micronesia.