On the weekend I met some of the people from Kiribati living around the Logan, Boonah area. They came to give a talk on the plight of their nation, as well as to share their cultural dances at the Boonah World Environment Day Festival. The focus of the festival was sustainability in community development, promoting principles such as recycling, with a special focus on Kiribati.
A friend of mine, who was making material bags to encourage people to do this rather than keeping using plastic bags, invited me along. Last year my eldest son was doing geography and one of the units was on climate refugees. One of his case studies of pending Climate Refugees (who are a subgroup of the environmental refugees of the world) was Kiribati.
Kiribati is one of four places overseas I have been blessed to travel to in my life, so as I read…
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