This “enormous” poem/video on climate change features the Marshall Islands’ Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Greenland’s Aka Niviâna.
The 2018 video connects their realities of melting glaciers and rising sea levels. They use their poetry to showcase the linkages between their homelands in the face of climate change, showing how large, and yet so small and interdependent our world is.
The poets “hope this poem can spark the emotion and drive needed for more people to rise and take action.”
The film is by Dan Lin Photography and is curated by 350.org.
Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner
Kathy was born in the Marshall Islands and raised in Hawai’i. She is a Climate Envoy for the RMI Ministry of Environment and supports her government by engaging in the multilateral climate space, as well as in developing national policies on climate adaptation. She is a poet and artist who explores her culture’s rich storytelling and shows how these stories converse with climate change impacts and its intersections with the legacy of the US nuclear weapons testing program on the Marshall Islands.
