Authorities have said they will stop defending the village of Fairbourne in Wales from the ocean in the future, after which time it will no longer be safe to live there and it will be abandoned to the sea.
ABC News' Linsey Davis speaks with Rev. Michael Curry, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of the U.S., about the church’s efforts to fight climate change.FAIRBOURNE, Wales -- Like many others who came to Fairbourne, Stuart Eves decided the coastal village in northern Wales would be home for life when he moved here 26 years ago.
Authorities have been working with villagers on the process of so-called “managed realignment” -- essentially, to move them away and abandon the village to the encroaching sea.refugees Natural Resources Wales, the government-sponsored organization responsible for the sea defenses in Fairbourne, said the village is particularly vulnerable because it faces multiple flooding risks. Built in the 1850s on a low-lying saltmarsh, Fairbourne already lies beneath sea level at high spring tide. During storms, the tidal level is more than 1.5 meters above the level of the village.
The effects of climate change that negotiators at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, are working to mitigate already are a reality here. Britain’s government, which is hosting the U.N. climate summit, needs to be much more upfront about such risks, said Richard Dawson, a member of the committee and professor of engineering at Newcastle University.
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