Troops, The Independent (UK) has a sad little news story:
Paradise lost: climate change forces South Sea islanders to seek sanctuary abroad
After years of fruitless appeals for decisive action on climate change, the tiny South Pacific nation of Kiribati has concluded that it is doomed. Yesterday its President, Anote Tong, used World Environment Day to request international help to evacuate his country before it disappears.
Water supplies are being contaminated by the encroaching salt water, Mr Tong said, and crops destroyed. Beachside communities have been moved inland. But Kiribati – 33 coral atolls sprinkled across two million square miles of ocean – has limited scope to adapt. Its highest land is barely 6 feet above sea level.
These are refugees, my fellow soldiers -- not from a typhoon, or an earthquake. They are our own war refugees.
That war, my brothers in arms, is the longest-running war in human history: the War On Nature.
This war has been long, but we can proudly say our side has won nearly every battle: we wiped out large herbivores wherever we went, with spear, club, bow, and gun; we've totally dominated farmland, so that it bows its monocropped head whenever we tell it to. We've crushed those wimpy, slow-growing rainforests to replant with palm oil plantations, in nice tidy rows. We've wiped out, in the billions, pesky insects, weeds, and nuisance predators alike. We are the conquerors.
This army of ours knows no peer when it comes to Shock and Awe: We can carpet bomb any landscape we choose, with chemicals, mercury, or endocrine disruptors, with impunity.
Trying to make it tough for us to get coal, mountain? We'll tear your head off and shove it down your crotch.
Make it harder for us to fish by emptying of life, ocean? We'll scrape you down to the barnacles.
My fellow soldiers, this Nature we conquered even gives us an endless atmosphere and bottomless ocean, into which we can dump our shit, because the subjugated, disorganized, lazy system has no recourse but to accept it. Like it always has, and always will, because it is our destiny to rule.
Recently, as you may seen in the news, there's been some signs of an insurgency. We're losing a few proud soldiers in this war: SUV sales are down, and now, we're seeing whole populations having to up and move.
This must not stand.
Speaking in New Zealand, Mr Tong said i-Kiribati, as his countrymen are known, had no option but to leave. "We may be beyond redemption," he said. "We may be at the point of no return...."
You think you can just rise, ocean, without consequences? Do you really think you can get away with that?!
We will see you in hell before we admit defeat! TO THE LAST MAN!