Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable | Christiana Figueres

Those facing the earliest and harshest consequences are, overwhelmingly, those who did the least to create them There are moments in history when a crisis long treated as distant reveals itself to be intimate, immediate and profoundly human. Sea-level rise is one of those moments. For years it has been discussed in the abstract language of centimetres, coastal infrastructure and future projections. This can make it seem like a technical challenge – something for engineers and planners to grap...

By Christiana Figueres