AFRICA MEETS MIAMI Q & A: Suzy Bell: I believe since 2009, devastatingly, an estimated, one person every second has been displaced by a disaster, with an average of 22.5 million people displaced by climate or weather-related events, what for you personally have been the climate change alarm bells? Guy Gabon: The first alerts came from watching my island, Guadeloupe which does not escape the climatic upheavals. Climate change is already occurring in our archipelago, which is particularly vulnerable because of its insular character and its exposure to extreme weather events. Our archipelago is confronted with the rise of sea level which could reach 80 cm by 2100, and with the evolution of the coastline which nibbles the littoral. At the scale of my little life, I saw some beaches disappear because the sea has nibbled hundreds of meters on our coasts. A small island of 6ha on which I was camping at as a teenager has totally disappeared. Our cyclones are more and more devastating on our landscapes, floods in the dry season take whole districts and families die. The cycles of the seasons are turned upside down, and the nature is totally disturbed. We will also have to adapt to a rise in average temperature that could reach more than 4 °C by 2100, resulting in longer and more frequent periods of drought, and an upsurge of very heavy precipitation events during the rainy season. #africameetsmiami #africandiaspora #guadeloupe #guygabon #publicart #artinstallation #bluejeans👖 #climatechange #climatechangeisreal #toutmonde #toutmondefestival2019 @frenchculturemiami @frenchartsassociates @pamm (at Pérez Art Museum Miami) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvA_KU3BrfK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=abikrt1pmcu5
