The Rising Tide

[Ocean Wave]

In the summer of 2007 Casey Beck and Austin Blair, recent graduates of
Tufts University, embarked on a project to bring the culture of the
Republic of Kiribati to the American public.

Kiribati, made up of 33 coral atolls, is one of the lowest lying
nations in the world and is especially vulnerable to high tides and
the rising sea level. Intrigued about the real life effects of
climate change, we chose Kiribati because of the people's intimate,
yet precarious connection to their environment and its being
relatively unknown in the United States.

The Rising Tide: Kiribati is an effort to capture the unique daily
life of the people of Kiribati and relay that to mainstream America.
Through this lens, Americans can see how their daily actions and often
blasé attitudes toward the environment are affecting the world.

http://www.therisingtidekiribati.org/