Kasia Walawska sailed a 36-foot boat around the Seychelles during her last law school vacation, and snorkeled amid the brilliant pinks and reds of the coral reefs. When she returned seven years later, in 2012, most had been bleached a dull white, as warming and rising waters smothered the algal blooms. The damaged reefs dramatize what climate change portends for human citizens of the Seychelles and other archipelagos on the front lines of global warming.
As it happens, Walawska was returning for pro bono work that seeks to alter the Seychelles’ fate. She’s doing a “debt for climate adaptation” swap.
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