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folkfashion · 5 months

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I-Kiribati men, Kiribati, by Roger Hayman

#i-kiribati #i kiribati #kiribati #oceania #micronesia #folk clothing #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #cultural clothing

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reasonsforhope · 9 months

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Is it true some parts will be under water in 2025? I'm kinda of worried cause someone told me about it bc it was on the news

Eh, not really. Like, technically, but that's a very dramatic way to put it.

What that person told you about was probably this prediction, which says that some roads on some of the Florida Keys might be underwater by 2025.

Does that suck? Yes. But it's also pretty limited in scope.

(And by the way, that's probably not "underwater all the time." There will probably be a number of years of "the roads will be underwater at high tide specifically." I can't currently find a source on this, but that's how tides work, and the Florida Keys article does specifically mention them as a main problem.)

The areas in danger first are pretty universally small, very low islands. Actually, a dozen or so small islands have already gone underwater in the Pacific Ocean, but very importantly, none of those islands were inhabited.

They were mostly small reef islands (that is, the entire island is exposed coral reef detritus) and other uninhabited shoals. Mostly, they were so small scientists had to check old satellite images to even figure out that they disappeared. Literally, we're talking about chunks of land that are just 100 square meters/300 square feet. Again, not great, but still very limited in scope.

As this Live Science article thankfully explains, it's pretty unlikely that any countries at all will disappear before 2100.

Also, just because land is below sea level doesn't mean it will be underwater, and there are very real steps we can take to defend a lot of endangered cities/islands.

For example:

Much of the Netherlands is already below sea level, but the country isn't disappearing, because the Dutch have put a lot of work into building and maintaining coastal defenses.

Multiple surveys (including the one that found the missing islands in Micronesia) also found that not all low-lying islands are vulnerable to erosion and flooding. This is because many islands are protected by mangrove forests, lagoons, or both

Mangrove reforestation in particular is genuinely a super effective anti-flooding strategy that is being deployed pretty widely, and is expected to increase a lot in the coming years. Mangroves are effective at not only preventing short-term flooding, but also mitigating sea-level increases (in part by preventing erosion)

Some islands, esp Pacific Islands, have actually grown during the past couple decades, not shrunk. It really depends on what the island is made up of. Not all land is automatically doomed

You can read more about how sinking countries are fighting back here, and the lessons we can learn from them:

-via Time, June 13, 2019

And finally, and this is good news for reasons I'll explain in a second:

Some of the largest and wealthiest cities in the world are at the top of the danger list. (Note: the predictions at that link are based on some fairly severe warming predictions. They do NOT necessarily reflect what's going to happen or when.)

The cities that are going to be in danger the soonest (still away btw) include New York, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Dubai. Lots of very rich people in those cities! Who would really like to not have to move (any of their ten different homes lol)

So, flooding aside, we're going to (by necessity) get a lot better at figuring out the quickest, cheapest, most scalable, and most effective types of coastal defenses real fast.

Are rich countries going to be way more able to get strong coastal defense systems up quickly? Yes. Does that suck? Sure fucking does!! But these solutions don't all require a lot of money or tech to implement, even at a large scale, especially when it's local communities driving the effort.

And, importantly, when rich countries pour a ton of money into figuring this out, that will hugely expand our understanding of what techniques work best, why, and how best to deploy them in different situations. Unlike physical structures, that's valuable knowledge that can be shared very, very widely.

And any technology that comes out of this is going to work like solar panels and other green energy: as more people use it, it will get cheaper and cheaper. Probably really quickly.

So, all told, no one's going to be swallowed up in the next few years. We have time to work on this and a lot of people are already doing so.

Mostly, experts predict that the first wave of large-scale issues will be happening around 2050.

Three decades doesn't sound like enough time, in the face of something like this. But you know what? Responses to climate change are speeding up exponentially, and different types of responses are multiplying and magnifying each other.

We went from inventing flight to landing on the moon in just 66 years.

I wouldn't count us out of the climate change fight yet.

(...I wouldn't count on retiring to Florida either, though)

#Anonymous #sea level rise #ocean #micronesia #pacific islander #mangrove #flood #flood mitigation #ask #me #hope #it does suck but I also really do think there is hope #this post was supposed to be like 2-3 paragraphs how did it turn into an entire essay #I have too many words disease #too much nuance #hope yall appreciate the extra context lol

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vyorei · 5 months

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I'm giving Micronesia and Nauru some serious fucking side-eye right now

Like.. The hell's YOUR beef with Palestine?

Weird... 💅

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #UN #UNGA #United Nations General Assembly #Draft resolution #Ceasefire resolution #Micronesia #Nauru

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gwydpolls · 8 months

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Time Travel Question 23: Ancient History XI and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct grouping.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

Sorry about the extra potato.

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countriesgame · 4 months

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Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about Micronesia, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

#micronesia #oceania #country polls #polls

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velolceraptor · 1 month

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Pretty sure I already made and posted this but...

#epithet erased banzai blasters #epithet erased flamethrower #epithet erased #ee flamethrower #me thinkz #headcanon #pacific islander #micronesia #odk just spit alling #bo did say that he was from isalnd country soooo

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whenua-and-moana · 4 months

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Banaba

How the West Made an Island Unhabitable (and Consumed its People's Bones)

Banaba, aka Ocean Island, is a small island in Micronesia. It's legally part of Kiribati [kih-ree-bas] but geographically, culturally, and politically very distinct. At three hundred kilometres from its nearest neighbour, Banaba is one of the most isolated places on earth.

It is also among one of the most ecologically devastated.

In the 1900's, a UK / Aotearoa / Australian owned mining company dug up and shipped away huge amounts of Banaba's phosphate-rich soil for use as fertilizer. They grew rich and created Aotearoa's massive agricultural industry from literal stolen land.

More than just the physical earth was taken. Phosphate mining stripped the layers where Banabans had buried their dead for thousands of years. The dust of their bones fed the lands of the West, creating rich green fields that Banabans would never see the profits of.

When I say 'huge amounts' of earth; 90% of the island's surface was stripped away.

[Left image: an aerial view of Banaba showing a roughly oval island with no vegetation in the centre. The outside is ringed by a thin strip of forest. Right image: a photo of the edge of a mining area. In the background is a forest, but then the ground drops off sharply into irregular rocky terrain.]

The ancient sacred caves were destroyed. The island's only source of fresh water was irreversibly polluted and left it unusable to this day. The interior of Banaba became one great hollow of uneven rock, so full of dips and pillars that it is now almost completely impassable on foot. It was left a barren land.

Banaba is not the only Pacific island devastated by phosphate mining; most notably, its neighbour Nauru had 80% of its surface stripped away. But nowhere has been exploited to quite the same extent as Banaba.

There were further indignities and horrors inflicted on the Banaban people, including indescribable atrocities carried out by Japanese occupiers during WWII, and tbe Britain-led forceful relocation of Banabans to Rabi Island in Fiji. Many still live there today. Others have migrated away.

[Image: Banaban girls performing a traditional dance on Rabi Island.]

The traumatic experiences of Banabans, the mass murders and the separation from their ancestral land have all caused significant cultural loss. This includes the loss of the Banaban language.

Approximately three hundred Banabans have returned to their home island, surviving due to supplies shipped in every few months. The only freshwater source remains unusable and severe droughts strike Banaba every three to four years. Although a desalination plant exists there, the vulnerability of the island became all too clear in 2021 when the plant broke down in the middle of a drought. It took three months for repair equipment to arrive. During that time the residents had no fresh water. Their only food was fish because all of their crops had died. They survived by sucking the liquid from fish eyeballs.

And an Australian mining company wants to do it all again.

Part of the reason that people returned to Banaba, despite the difficulties of life there, was to protect it from further mining. But in August last year, the Australian mining company Centrex announced a plan to restart phosphate mining on Banaba. The plan has been paused due to protests from the Banaban people, but it could be restarted again at any time.

We cannot leave it here. If you want to do one small thing to help, you can sign this petition from Banaban community leaders to stop the proposed new phosphate mine. But more than that, Banabans have been campaigning for Australia and Aotearoa to fund ecological restoration projects, especially for the sacred caves that were once the island's source of fresh water. As Katerina Teiawa says:

"We need to move away from this same continuous narrative of ‘the poor Banaban people, who have no water, help them’ and move towards an approach that is actually finding a solution.

This whole thing is a series of crises. We can’t just keep telling the story of devastation and vulnerability over and over again. Where does the crisis end, if not with justice?"

#banaba #micronesia #pacific islands #colonisation #indigenous rights #my posts

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an-onyx-void · 4 months

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#tiktok #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #israel is committing genocide #israel is an apartheid state #israel is committing war crimes #the united nations #united nations #the united states of america #the united states #united states #the un #the us #canada #Micronesia

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jenbunny-star · 9 months

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My phone is filled with selfies and sunsets. 😊

#guam #671 #sunset #chasing sunsets #mariana islands #island life #sunsets in paradise #theGUdlife #guahan #micronesia

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ancientorigins · 1 year

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Discover the magnificent and awe-inspiring Nan Madol, one of the most ancient and enigmatic lost cities in the world in this National Geographic video.

#lost city #Nan Madol #Micronesia #LiDAR #Pohnpei #ancient city

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folkfashion · 4 months

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Yapese dancing skirts, Federal States of Micronesia, by Discoversilversea

#yapese #federal states of micronesia #micronesia #oceania #folk clothing #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #cultural clothing

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metanoia-haus · 29 days

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ɪɴsᴛᴀɢʀᴀᴍ @ɪᴍᴀɢɪᴄᴀsᴀ.ʙᴇ: ( ᴘᴀʟᴀᴜ , ᴍɪᴄʀᴏɴᴇsɪᴀ )

#photography #architecture #bath design #palau #micronesia #travel #wabisabi

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newguineatribalart · 9 months

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Micronesian art

#pacific #micronesia #tribal art #art #art sculpture

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ker4unos · 2 years

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MELANESIA, MICRONESIA & POLYNESIA RESOURCES

The Anthropological Masterlist is HERE.

Melanesia is an Oceanian subregion that includes Fiji, Vanuatu, and more. Micronesia is an Oceanian subregion that includes Kiribati, the Caroline Islands, and more. These two subregions have cultural similarities to the Austronesians.

THE CAROLINE ISLANDS ─ “The Caroline Islands are a group of Micronesian islands.” ─ Caroline Islands Information ─ Pohnpei Political Mythology

CHAMORRO ─ “The Chamorro, or Chamoru, people are an Indigenous Micronesian people. They are native to the Mariana Islands.” ─ Chamorro Culture ─ Chamorro Grammar ─ Chamorro Dictionary

FIJI ─ “The Fijian people are a Melanesian people that share the Fijian culture. They are native to Fiji.” ─ Fijian Information ─ Fijian Culture ─ Fijian History

THE GILBERT ISLANDS ─ “The Gilbert Islands are a group of Micronesian islands, between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii. Today, it belongs to Kiribati.” ─ Numbers in Gilbertese ─ Gilbertese Phonetics ─ Kiribati Dictionary

Polynesia is an Oceanian subregion that includes New Zealand, Hawai’i, and more.

THE COOK ISLANDS ─ “The Cook Islands are a group of Polynesian islands that belong to New Zealand.” ─ Songs and Legends from the Cook Islands ─ Cook Islands Dictionary

HAWAI’I ─ “The Hawai’ian people are an Indigenous Polynesian people. They are native to the Hawai’ian Islands.” ─ Kingdom of Hawai’i ─ Hawai’ian Mythology ─ Hawai’ian Dictionary

ILOCANO ─ “The Ilocano, or Iloko, people are an Indigenous Polynesian people. They are native to the Ilocos Region of the Philippines.” ─ Ilocano Information ─ Ilocano Pride ─ Ilocano Dictionary

MANGAIA ─ “The Mangaian people are an Indigenous Polynesian people. They are native to Mangaia.” ─ Mangaia Information ─ Mangaia Mythology ─ Mangaia Prehistory

MĀORI ─ “The Māori people are an Indigenous Polynesian people. They are native to mainland New Zealand, or Aotearoa.” ─ Māori Traditions ─ Māori History ─ Māori Language

MORIORI ─ “The Moriori people are an Indigenous Polynesian people. They are native to the Chatham Islands in New Zealand.” ─ Moriori Information ─ Moriori Information ─ Moriori Language

NAURU ─ “The Nauruan people are an Indigenous Polynesian people. They are native to Nauru.” ─ Nauru Information ─ Tribes of Nauru ─ American Relations with Nauru

NIUE ─ “The Niuean people are an Indigenous Polynesian people. They are native to Niue.” ─ Niue Information ─ Niue History ─ Plants and Animals in the Niuean Language

RAPA NUI ─ “The Rapa Nui people are an Indigenous Polynesian people. They are native to Easter Island.” ─ Rapa Nui Culture ─ Rapa Nui and the Art of Tattoos ─ Rapa Nui and Colonization

ROTUMA ─ “The Rotumans are an Indigenous Polynesian people. They are native to the island of Rotuma.” ─ Rotuman Information ─ Rotuman Language

SAMOA ─ “The Samoan people are an Indigenous Polynesian people. They are native to the Samoan Islands.” ─ American Samoan Culture ─ Samoan History ─ Samoan Language

THE TOKELAU ISLANDS ─ “The Tokelauan people are an Indigenous Polynesian people. They are native to the Tokelau Islands.” ─ Tokelauan Culture ─ Tokelauans in New Zealand ─ Tokelauan Language