As its president pleads with the international community to act decisively on climate change, huge waves and rampant disease have turned the Marshall Islands into what 1 health official called ‘a war zone.’
The level of alarm is already high in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, as the Pacific island nation struggles with rising sea levels and the after-effects of decades of U.S. nuclear testing on its atolls.
The Marshall Islands is “facing death row,” Heine, the nation’s president, told a meeting of international leaders at the United Nations’ Climate Conference in Madrid. “It’s a war zone,” Niedenthal said in an email, describing long waits at the emergency room and chaos in the wards. In 1986, the Marshall Islands and the United States signed an agreement cementing an alliance. In exchange for $150 million and the right for its citizens to work in the United States without visas, the U.S. secured a military base on Kwajalein Atoll and the right to refuse the military presence of any other nation.
“With all due respect to the U.S. government’s experts, their attempts to reassure us leave us with more troubling questions than answers,” said Jack Ading, the minister of justice, immigration and labor. In 2017, Heine, the pro-U.S. president, barely survived a “no-confidence” vote in the Marshallese parliament that was instigated by her pro-Chinese counterparts. At issue was a proposal for a Chinese-backed special economic zone in Rongelap Atoll, which Heine opposed.
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