A ring of coral
Floating on seas of hubris –
Lost beneath the waves
The Atufu atoll, group of 42 coral islets within Tokelau in the south Pacific Ocean, 500 kilometres north of Samoa (Photo Credit: NASA Johnson Space Center).
This is a haiku, inspired by recent research which has found that most atolls will be uninhabitable by the middle of the 21st century because of sea-level rise and flooding caused by climate change.
An atoll is a ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands formed of coral. Climate change is causing sea levels to rise, with the highest rates in the tropics, where thousands
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