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Global warming: in Mexico, a village is disappearing due to rising water levels
Global warming: in Mexico, a village is disappearing due to rising water levels
(France 2)
El Bosque, in Mexico, is disappearing due to rising sea levels. While the village still had 700 inhabitants two years ago, today there are barely a dozen remaining. According to Greenpeace, this village illustrates the damage caused by global warming in Mexico.
In El Bosque (Mexico), houses are swallowed up by the sea. On the page find rubble of homes as far as the eye can see. Every day, village resident Adrian Perez walks past his old, abandoned school. “It’s difficult. I was born, I grew up here”, he laments. The village, located in southern Mexico, still had 700 inhabitants two years ago. There are barely a dozen left today.
Dozens of families have been forced to flee rising water levels, in addition to repeated droughts. Like them, Cristy Echeverria, a former resident of the village, had no other choice but to leave her house. “We constantly hear about climate change, but we never thought it would happen here”, she says. For Greenpeace, this village of El Bosque illustrates the damage of global warming in Mexico. In 2022, the number of environmentally displaced people will reach a record of more than 30 million people worldwide.
