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Church in the WorldAustralia urged to help islandersAustralasia 21 January 2006AUSTRALIA SHOULD help to resettle Pacific Islanders forced to leave their homelands by sea level changes caused by global warming and geological shifts, an Australian Catholic bishop has urged. Bishop Christopher Toohey of Wilcannia-Forbes (New South Wales), the chairman of Catholic Earthcare Australia, said rising sea levels had reduced freshwater supplies and arable land, forcing islanders to seek new homes elsewhere. Yet Australia ? when compared with New Zealand and Canada, which had resettled islanders from Tuvalu and parts of Vanuatuhad ? had been slow to respond to the needs of people on its doorstep.
?Whether it?s because of human-induced climate change or geological changes, the fact of the matter is that these people are going to have to leave,? Bishop Toohey told The Tablet. He said the 110,000 population of Kiribati was equal to the combined populations of the NSW regional cities Dubbo and Wagga Wagga, so if Australia as a whole tackled the problem, the impact of resettlement would not be so great. |
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