Climate change keeps Micah on the move

M

icah Puia lives in a shanty town on a dirty beach in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. He is 11 years old, and has lived here all his life.

He sleeps in a raised fibro hut with his grandparents and several cousins, attends second grade at a local school and swims in the mouth of the Mataniko River, alongside the community's cotes of pigs and chooks, and where the waterway dumps into the Pacific Ocean.

According to some here, Micah has spent his whole life as a climate change refugee. And he will soon be forced to move.

Read the story in today’s Melbourne Age by Adam Morton and Tom Arup - “Paris 2015: As UN climate change talks start, islanders consider a life on the move.”