The Great Melt: Accounts from the Frontline of Climate Change

By Alister Doyle

Alister Doyle journeys to the frontlines of climate change, where lives are being forever changed by rising seas: In Fiji, Simione Botu is certain when I ask him what happened to make his house vanish. "Climate change," he replies. "Sea level rise, floods, caused this. … No matter what we did, the water came through the village." Botu's ancestral birthplace, Old Vunidogoloa village, now lies deserted and desolate in the face of onslaught from the swelling seas. In Florida, 13-year-old Levi Draheim has already had to wade in water up to his knees when his home was flooded: "I want to be able to tell [my 9-month-old sister] that I did everything I can to fight these horrible things that we are inheriting." His sister will be 79 in 2100; on current predictions the ocean may have risen by 1 metre by then.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750997842
• ISBN13: 9780750997843
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Flint
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 8.8"