Face to face with climate change

摘要

Indigenous communities are on the front line of global warming — but those being hit especially hard are adapting to adversity with ingenuity. THERE WAS A WOODEN platform here where we used to fish, and a clump of trees...that's where the shed was,"said Joanne Bolt, grasping a sapling to stop herself sliding down the muddy bank. She pointed at the swirling water, like an old lady recalling childhood landmarks. But Joanne, a member of the Bundjalung Aboriginal community, is 30 years old and it's notsome new development that swallowed her memories - it's the river.