WSJ: Rising Caribbean Sea Pushes just 1,200 Indigenous Group Off a very tiny Island. Really!

Is it the rising sea or the extreme overcrowdedness and human activity that sinks this very tiny island? I suspect it is the latter!

"GARDI SUGDUB, Panama—From this tiny, hot and overcrowded island, some 1,200 indigenous Guna people will soon embark on a short but historic exodus.

Next year, most inhabitants of Gardi Sugdub—the name means Crab Island—will leave the cluster of thatched and tin-roofed houses traversed by narrow footpaths where they have lived for more than a century, and head for the Panamanian mainland about a mile away. ..."

Rising Caribbean Sea Pushes Indigenous Group Off Island - WSJ Community plans move to a new Panama subdivision, and climate scientists say their entire archipelago will be submerged in decades