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Respect All Peoples


The energy choices we make now profoundly affect other societies and future generations of humanity. Our choices over energy affect those who play no part in creating the problem of climate change.   Indigenous people, including the Aboriginal peoples of the Northern Territory and our Pacific neighbours will be the ones most affected by the destructive impacts of a uranium/ nuclear cycle and the impacts of our inaction over climate change.

Narasirato panpipers
Our culture is our life

"We are farmers and fishermen who live at the end of a mangrove forest at the southern end of Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands. Our village is only accessible by canoe, boat or overland by foot. We are proud of our culture, including our Aré Aré tradition of pan pipe music. Our aspiration is just to revive and maintain our culture, assist our youths, address poverty and life sustenance in the rural Aré Aré. Climate change, rising sea levels and warming of the sea will impact heavily on Solomon Islands environment and society. Our culture is our life."
- Narasirato Pan Pipers

Listen to the song!

The Low Down

Climate change and our pacific neighbours

Pacific Islander will be the first to loose their homes to climate change.
Many Pacific islanders live on the coastal fringes of the islands and atolls, and rising sea levels pose a significant threat to their livelihoods, cultures and communities. Many villages and urban centres report the increasing occurrence of very high tides, erosion of beaches and contamination of coastal freshwater by salt. In some areas, villagers have already been forced to relocate to higher ground following regular tidal invasions.

The Carteret Islands
People from these islands will not be the first people to lose their homes because of global warming. Rising seas, expanding deserts and changing weather have already displaced many, possibly millions of people. But the people of the Carterets are unique, as they will be the first to see their atoll, 6 small islands 100 km form Bougainville, completely submerged. They started to leave their islands in early 2007.
"Can people help us to do something to stay on our little island as we love to live on our island?"  

Carteret Island Elders speak:

 

The Links

Sinking atolls trigger Papua evacuation plans
28th May 2003
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Oceans swallowing Pacific islands
Dec 18th, 2001
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The last tide could come at any time.
Then these islands at the end of the
Earth will simply vanish
Dec 21, 2006
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"God help me and my island people"
by Ursula Rakova, from Han Island
2006
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Uranium/Nuclear Industry
In Australia Aboriginal people have suffered most from the impacts of the uranium mining and the nuclear industry generally.

You got to know your history....  
Maralinga , in the remote western areas of South Australia is the home of the Maralinga Tjarutja- traditional owners and was the site of seven atomic bombs in the 1950s.   Many Indigenous communities living in the surrounding areas were not warned, despite the experience of previous atomic tests at Emu Field, where Indigenous groups experiened a "black mist" rolling through their camps after the tests, followed by widespread sickness.   The 1986 Royal Commission concluded that at Maralinga "attempts to ensure Aboriginal safety [during the tests] demonstrate ignorance, incompetence and cynicism on the part of those responsible for that safety."
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