More from Giff Johnson

Mounting problems facing American states and territories attempting to meet needs of in-bound islanders need high-level engagement and action. Clearly legislation and policy action at the federal and state level would help, writes Giff Johnson.

Small island states that contribute little to the carbon problem globally need to change their ways as they are demanding of big nations. The apparent conflict between profiting from the oil company industry and demanding it be phased down must be addressed.

Media reports on government ‘corruption’ usually focus on theft of money from government ministries or agencies. But there are more subtle practices of government both at high level and at lower levels that are not often in view, but greatly impact operations of governments, argues Giff Johnson.

We talk about ‘resilience’ all the time, but we generally ignore the population that is most resilient: rural villagers. We need to get out of our urban thinking box and engage rural communities to learn about building resilience elsewhere, argues Giff Johnson.