WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.299 Okay, Chelsea, no option this time. You told 00:00:02.299 --> 00:00:05.219 me we're going into a two parter. So I decided 00:00:05.219 --> 00:00:07.459 that I'm going to kind of go into a two parter 00:00:07.459 --> 00:00:10.660 too, in that these are going to be kind of paired 00:00:10.660 --> 00:00:13.820 stories in that. Well, I don't like that you 00:00:13.820 --> 00:00:17.219 don't give me a choice. I haven't been disappointed 00:00:17.219 --> 00:00:20.179 with the choices that you've made for me. Well, 00:00:20.420 --> 00:00:22.969 I feel like some of the stories have. disappointed 00:00:22.969 --> 00:00:25.710 you in that they reveal aspects of the world 00:00:25.710 --> 00:00:30.129 but it's disappointing in a way that i wasn't 00:00:30.129 --> 00:00:34.950 able to choose as well as am disappointed in 00:00:34.950 --> 00:00:38.090 humanity but not disappointed with your choice 00:00:38.090 --> 00:00:41.969 okay there's a difference fair enough well these 00:00:41.969 --> 00:00:44.630 are going to be appearing in the arc of the rich 00:00:44.630 --> 00:00:47.530 person's emotions saga that we followed in the 00:00:47.530 --> 00:00:50.429 fringy minis However, this is like that category. 00:00:50.590 --> 00:00:52.609 Yeah, I like that category, too. It's usually 00:00:52.609 --> 00:00:56.170 fun. However, this is the opposite side of the 00:00:56.170 --> 00:00:59.450 rich person's emotions in how other people have 00:00:59.450 --> 00:01:02.909 to react to sea level changes. I feel like that's 00:01:02.909 --> 00:01:06.930 the side I don't like. to explore and very few 00:01:06.930 --> 00:01:09.650 people do and the stories stay hidden on it for 00:01:09.650 --> 00:01:13.390 the most part yeah i'm feeling conflicted at 00:01:13.390 --> 00:01:16.790 this time but uh let's see what you got okay 00:01:16.790 --> 00:01:19.950 this article comes from the week uk the week's 00:01:19.950 --> 00:01:22.370 about like the the week the days of the week 00:01:22.370 --> 00:01:27.379 oh not like We did have it from another source, 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:30.879 but that source has a paywall that I cannot reach 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:34.159 at the moment. So we are here, unless you guys 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:37.040 want to pay us miraculously in the next 30 seconds 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:40.920 or so to get that other one. Anything? No, nothing 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:43.120 yet. So we're just going to go ahead with this. 00:01:43.219 --> 00:01:46.000 There's still like 20 seconds. Yeah, they still 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:48.159 got it. I'm gonna start reading though. Okay 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:53.540 This is from July 31st 2025 written by Davika 00:01:53.540 --> 00:01:57.000 Rao Article title Tuvalu is being lost to climate 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:59.859 change other countries will likely follow The 00:01:59.859 --> 00:02:02.439 island nation of Tuvalu is becoming the first 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:05.299 country to be completely lost due to rising sea 00:02:05.299 --> 00:02:07.859 levels However, the country is possibly only 00:02:07.859 --> 00:02:10.379 the first of many without actions taken to mitigate 00:02:10.379 --> 00:02:14.020 climate change Tuvalu, located in Oceania, is 00:02:14.020 --> 00:02:16.439 expected to be completely underwater by 2050. 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:19.080 What? The island nation with a population of 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:21.800 11 ,000. Once you see pictures of Tuvalu it's 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:23.960 gonna make sense, but we'll talk about it at 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:26.240 the end here. The island nation with a population 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:29.219 of just 11 ,000 is setting a precedent to become 00:02:29.219 --> 00:02:31.699 the first country to have to permanently evacuate. 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:35.240 To do this, Australia and Tuvalu signed the Philippine 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.849 Union Treaty. which is an, quote, agreement that 00:02:38.849 --> 00:02:41.110 provides for a migration scheme that will allow 00:02:41.110 --> 00:02:44.270 280 Tuvaluans per year to settle in Australia 00:02:44.270 --> 00:02:46.789 as permanent residents, end quote, said Wired. 00:02:47.030 --> 00:02:50.090 This is the first climate visa of its kind, end 00:02:50.090 --> 00:02:52.650 quote. We received extremely high levels of interest 00:02:52.650 --> 00:02:56.990 in the ballots with 8 ,750 registrations, basically 00:02:56.990 --> 00:02:59.069 everybody that lived there, which includes family 00:02:59.069 --> 00:03:01.770 members of primary registrants, end quote, with 00:03:01.770 --> 00:03:04.490 my additions in there. The Australian High Commission 00:03:04.490 --> 00:03:06.990 in Tuvalu said in a statement, The visa operates 00:03:06.990 --> 00:03:09.490 through a ballot system and quote, will grant 00:03:09.490 --> 00:03:12.030 beneficiaries the same health, education, housing 00:03:12.030 --> 00:03:14.569 and employment rights enjoyed by Australian citizens, 00:03:14.830 --> 00:03:18.150 end quote, said Wired. Tuvaluans, which I just 00:03:18.150 --> 00:03:21.629 gotta say, one of the greatest like nationality 00:03:21.629 --> 00:03:24.289 prefixes I've ever heard. Tuvaluans is great. 00:03:24.569 --> 00:03:26.409 It rolls right off the tongue. Yeah, it does 00:03:26.409 --> 00:03:28.550 sound really nice. And we're losing that, which 00:03:28.550 --> 00:03:31.939 is so sad. Well, they would still be Tuvaluans, 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:34.139 just not in Tuvalu. Well, there's not that many 00:03:34.139 --> 00:03:35.699 of them. It's going to be like one generation 00:03:35.699 --> 00:03:39.340 and they'll be gone. Well, your ancestry though. 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:43.560 Tuvaluans will also be able to return to their 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.560 home country if conditions allow. However, Tuvalu 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:48.840 is perhaps just the first of many countries or 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:51.659 regions that will have to evacuate because of 00:03:51.659 --> 00:03:54.009 climate change. Quote. From historic droughts 00:03:54.009 --> 00:03:56.689 to catastrophic floods, these extreme variations 00:03:56.689 --> 00:03:59.469 disrupt lives, economies, and entire ecosystems. 00:04:10.210 --> 00:04:13.189 A professor at Australian National University 00:04:13.189 --> 00:04:16.550 said to Wired, Unfortunately, Tuvalu is the canary 00:04:16.550 --> 00:04:18.529 in the coal mine and that coal mine is rapidly 00:04:18.529 --> 00:04:22.149 filling with water. While not on the scale of 00:04:22.149 --> 00:04:24.529 an entire country, there have been other times 00:04:24.529 --> 00:04:27.290 when almost full populations have made moves 00:04:27.290 --> 00:04:30.550 to evacuate where they lived. In 2024, approximately 00:04:30.550 --> 00:04:33.110 1 ,200 members of the indigenous Guna community 00:04:33.110 --> 00:04:36.449 relocated from the island of Gardi -Sugdub off 00:04:36.449 --> 00:04:38.850 the coast of Panama to the mainland. This was 00:04:38.850 --> 00:04:40.949 also due to rising sea levels slowly sinking 00:04:40.949 --> 00:04:43.569 the island. This was, quote, one of the first 00:04:43.569 --> 00:04:45.750 planned migrations in Latin America due to climate 00:04:45.750 --> 00:04:48.209 change, end quotes at AFP. In a similar vein, 00:04:48.379 --> 00:04:51.660 Nearly 300 people moved from New Talk, Alaska, 00:04:52.060 --> 00:04:54.540 because the village was perched on permafrost, 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:56.879 which began to thaw dangerously and erode the 00:04:56.879 --> 00:04:59.759 banks. More countries are likely to become less 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:03.180 habitable in the future. By 2070, over, quote, 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:06.319 three billion people could find themselves living 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:08.879 outside of humanity's climate niche, end quote, 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:11.519 said the San Francisco Chronicle. Island nations 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:14.740 are especially at risk. The Maldives are an archipelago 00:05:14.740 --> 00:05:17.699 comprising almost 1 ,200 islands, most of which 00:05:17.699 --> 00:05:21.319 are under four feet above sea level. Wow. Making 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:24.060 them especially vulnerable to changes in ocean 00:05:24.060 --> 00:05:27.220 levels. Quote, even a minimal rise in water levels 00:05:27.220 --> 00:05:30.540 can lead to a major change, such as coastal erosion, 00:05:30.939 --> 00:05:33.420 salinization of drinking water sources, and more 00:05:33.420 --> 00:05:36.300 frequent flooding, end quote said Wodna Sprawji. 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:39.060 Which, okay, it's a Polish name, it doesn't sound 00:05:39.060 --> 00:05:43.720 fake. Wait, okay, Wat Nisprally is a Polish publication, 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.540 it's not even a Polish person, never mind. As 00:05:46.540 --> 00:05:49.360 preparation, the Maldives government has quote, 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:51.879 explored plans to purchase land on higher grounds 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:54.620 in other countries, end quote, said NASA. Why 00:05:54.620 --> 00:05:56.939 would NASA say that? Why didn't the Maldives? 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:01.279 Anyhow, I don't know if I trust the weak UK yet 00:06:01.279 --> 00:06:04.019 as a great source. Almost every other island 00:06:04.019 --> 00:06:07.370 nation faces similar risks. including Kiribati, 00:06:07.670 --> 00:06:11.050 the Solomon Islands, Fiji, and Vanuatu. The US 00:06:11.050 --> 00:06:13.209 is also not free from the threat of relocation. 00:06:13.410 --> 00:06:15.410 Several coastal states such as Florida, Louisiana, 00:06:15.949 --> 00:06:18.149 Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi are at risk of 00:06:18.149 --> 00:06:20.889 losing their coastlines. New York City, Chicago, 00:06:21.050 --> 00:06:24.069 and several cities in California are also sinking, 00:06:24.430 --> 00:06:27.050 which could in time require evacuation. In addition, 00:06:27.170 --> 00:06:29.189 the Gulf of Mexico is rising three times faster 00:06:29.189 --> 00:06:31.050 than the global average, according to a study 00:06:31.050 --> 00:06:33.629 published in the journal Nature. Without measures 00:06:33.629 --> 00:06:36.189 to combat climate change, mass migration may 00:06:36.189 --> 00:06:38.529 be the only way to survive. And that's the end 00:06:38.529 --> 00:06:40.269 of the article. I found it really interesting, 00:06:40.449 --> 00:06:41.529 actually, at the end there, where they include 00:06:41.529 --> 00:06:44.089 Chicago, which is not a coastal city. It's on 00:06:44.089 --> 00:06:46.670 a lake. So they're sinking for a very different 00:06:46.670 --> 00:06:50.730 reason, I would think. What? Any idea what reason 00:06:50.730 --> 00:06:53.569 that one is? It could be that they're using too 00:06:53.569 --> 00:06:56.529 much groundwater and it's sinking that way. Weird. 00:06:56.810 --> 00:06:58.769 And, you know, there's a handful of states that 00:06:58.769 --> 00:07:02.290 I always forget are coastal states like Mississippi. 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:07.839 But definitely a bad side of global warming that 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:11.720 I mean you talk about rising sea levels and and 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:13.980 whatnot, and you think, yeah, yeah, it's so far 00:07:13.980 --> 00:07:16.439 in the future, but you think, you know, with 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:19.000 this article, this is in the next, what did they 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:23.279 say, 2050? 2050, 25 years. 25 years, we're gonna 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:26.160 lose whole entire populations. And I did pull 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:31.000 up Tuvalu, like, I do see how this could, I mean, 00:07:31.019 --> 00:07:33.560 it was teetering on it the whole time, I think, 00:07:33.939 --> 00:07:36.519 as it's falling in the ocean. Its highest point 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:39.740 is six feet above sea level. And it's very tiny. 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:44.519 Yeah. Oh, it's very long. It is a strip of sand 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:48.000 above the ocean pretty much. I don't know that 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.139 I would like to live there. If you ever told 00:07:50.139 --> 00:07:52.720 me to design a highway that goes across the ocean, 00:07:53.019 --> 00:07:54.819 that's what I would do. I'd make it look like 00:07:54.819 --> 00:07:57.939 Tuvalu. Yeah, it would with a big enough wave. 00:07:57.939 --> 00:08:00.600 It would be gone. Yeah, it makes me nervous. 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.600 I will say apparently Australia and Tuvalu have 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:06.699 had these talks going back to the 1960s. You 00:08:06.699 --> 00:08:09.259 would have to be at a low level. Yeah, you would 00:08:09.259 --> 00:08:12.300 have to. Yeah, that's crazy. Something you don't 00:08:12.300 --> 00:08:15.439 think about. Well, I mean, no, where I am, it's 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:19.199 not. that uh there's a threat here yes because 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:21.740 i am close to the well not where you are specifically 00:08:21.740 --> 00:08:25.360 but you're in the city itself yeah it could be 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:28.899 if it rises far enough yes and yeah it's just 00:08:28.899 --> 00:08:31.639 like there's no point in saving this island importantly 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:33.919 because i don't think any really rich people 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:38.960 live there yeah and it's only worth saving if 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.559 rich people are there yeah they're not shoring 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:49.169 up the beaches there yeah How true. And yeah, 00:08:49.429 --> 00:08:51.809 it's funny that they're talking about like, basically 00:08:51.809 --> 00:08:54.809 the entire country did sign up to leave. Well, 00:08:54.889 --> 00:08:57.710 you would have to. Who would be so crazy to not? 00:08:58.070 --> 00:09:00.409 The captain of the island. You say that, but 00:09:00.409 --> 00:09:04.059 people are like... Dreaming into Florida, which 00:09:04.059 --> 00:09:06.980 is basically in the exact same situation Yeah, 00:09:07.059 --> 00:09:10.700 but I mean Florida people are Florida people 00:09:10.700 --> 00:09:12.960 Yeah, but how do we know Tuvaluans aren't just 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:16.919 the Floridians of the Oceania area? I feel like 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:19.539 nobody is the Florida of anywhere but Florida. 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:23.700 That's a fair point Only Americans can be so 00:09:23.700 --> 00:09:28.580 American. Yeah, and then there's Floridians Floridians? 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:31.009 Yeah, I think that's how you say it I don't know. 00:09:31.389 --> 00:09:34.450 But yeah, you guys got 48 hours. Go check if 00:09:34.450 --> 00:09:37.570 you're at risk in the next 70 or so years of 00:09:37.570 --> 00:09:40.529 falling into the ocean. If not, hey, keep listening. 00:09:40.769 --> 00:09:41.129 Bye.