"Sea-Level Rise: 'My Nightmare Has Already Happened'"

"MADISON, Wis. — A continental divide of geography, language, culture and tradition separates the Gullah/Geechee Nation of the south Atlantic coast and the U.S.-Mexico border city of Imperial Beach, Calif.

But their elected leaders are bound by a common cause. They are trying to keep rising seas from destroying their ways of life.

Speaking to a plenary audience of the National Adaptation Forum here yesterday, Queen Quet, chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, and Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dedina implored the roughly 900 participants to act decisively to counter climate warming or risk losing irreplaceable pieces of America's cultural fabric."

Daniel Cusick reports for ClimateWire April 24, 2019.