The reality of Shishmaref Island, where the ice island is sinking - 2007

The reality of Shishmaref Island, where the ice island is sinking - 2007

On Shishmaref Island in western Alaska, global warming has caused sea ice to thaw and coastal erosion to progress rapidly. In 2007, the U.S. government reported the island as a "frontline area that is becoming uninhabitable due to climate change. The government began to consider relocating the entire island, but practical issues such as the resistance to leaving their ancestral lands and the cost of 100 million dollars weighed heavily on the government.

Although coastal protection and reinforcement measures were implemented, the huge costs and concerns about the destruction of nature prevented a fundamental solution. Against this backdrop, the residents of Shishmaref Island have become known around the world as a symbol of "climate refugees. This crisis on a quiet island in the Arctic Circle showed that the damage caused by global warming is not a statistic, but a reality that strikes at human life. The sight of the crumbling ice civilization continues to serve as a "memory of a vanishing Earth" in the age of global warming, and continues to serve as a wake-up call for the world.