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November 14, 2009

Please

Bill McKibben

Community members gather on grass in front of a building, holding a banner reading "SAVE KORO FROM THE RISING SEA PLEASE" with palm trees in the background.

If you want to understand what countries mean when they talk about survival, visit a place like Koro Island, Fiji–14 villages in the mid-Pacific, who have done nothing at all to cause the temperature to rise. It’s really quite a miracle that they ask so politely.

Community members gather on grass in front of a building, holding a banner reading "SAVE KORO FROM THE RISING SEA PLEASE" with palm trees in the background.