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SEA LEVEL RISE A THREAT TO CARIBBEAN ISLANDS GUADELOUPE, MARTINIQUE, MARIE-GALANTE AND SAINT-MARTIN
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WORDS | STEPHEN SPARK
arts of the French Caribbean islands could be uninhabitable within 20 years, a geographer has warned. The effect of global warming on sea level rise and the increased number and severity of storms and floods will have a particularly serious effect on France’s overseas territories of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Marie-Galante and Saint-Martin, 42 SN MAY 2022
said Virginie Duvat, Professor of Geography at the University of La Rochelle, France. Prof Duvat said that sea level rise cannot now be stopped, so we must expect more deadly floods like those that devastated Pointe-à-Pitre and other communities in Guadeloupe on 30 April. Unless global warming can be reversed, by approximately the year 2060 vulnerable areas will
