Pacific Elders Voice group says military tension ‘created by China and the US and its allies’ are secondary to rising seas and catastrophic cyclones
Growing military tensions in the Pacific between, the US and Australia do not address the most significant security threat to the region – climate change – former leaders of Pacific nations have warned.
“The growing military tension in the Pacific region created by both China and the United States and its allies, including Australia, does little to address the real threat to the region caused by climate change,” it said.“We are suffering from many insecurities in our region. It is time that the international community focus on these insecurities, particularly in the context of climate change.
, increasing salinity, sustained droughts and the loss of low-lying islands to sea level rise among those most at threat from the climate crisis, with low-lying nations at risk from rising sea levels.that are disappearing or becoming uninhabitable due to rising sea levels.would be “catastrophic”
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