Today's climate alarmism is the culmination of decades-long eco-anxiety. In 1982, the UN was predicting climate change and other environmental concerns could cause “devastation as complete, as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust” by the year 2000.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/22/bidens-climate-alarmism-will-do-harm-good/ …
All atolls change over time, w/wind+water washing shoreline away, but accretion from broken coral increasing shoreline more Outcome is that part of islands get smaller (where u see reports), but more parts getting larger, here Marshall Island: 4%+ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213305415300199 …pic.twitter.com/7vXjgaZg8V