Poet-Activist Urges Australia to Block Giant Coal Mine

One of the South Pacific’s most vocal climate change campaigners is urging Australia to abandon plans for a giant Indian-owned coal mine in Queensland. Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is from the Marshall Islands, a poet and daughter of the Micronesian nation's first female president, who says the proposed Adani mine and the emissions from the coal it would produce would make Pacific Islands more vulnerable to rising sea levels.   The Adani project in northern Australia would supply...

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