Week 8 Global Warming

The year is 7010, my time machine glitches and I ended up in a place I’ve always wanted to visit. Little did I know it would’ve looked like this five thousand years later. During my accidental travels I ended up in the Bahamas. The Bahamas was made up of seven hundred (700) islands and cays stretching from Abaco in the North to Inagua in the South.  I’m writing my journal sitting on the highest point which is Mount Alvernia in Cat Island. This hill is 206 feet which is considered high because the Bahamas is below sea level. The Bahamas is situated in the hurricane belt, leaving the nation susceptible to dangerous storms. In 2020 the catastrophic storm by the name of Dorian flattened the Island of Abaco and destroyed a major portion of Grand Bahama. Dorian was just a taste of what would the years would hold.
Observing my surroundings the majority of the islands have disappeared. The Southern islands have been covered by sea water and islanders had to relocate further up the chain. Once known for sun, sand and sea the country is now slowly being covered in water. The Bahamas is a Small Island Developing State (SIDS), which are a group of countries that share sustainable development challenges; for example small populations, limited resources, remoteness, susceptibility to natural disasters, vulnerability to external shocks, excessive dependence on outside countries. As a result of this, The Bahamas has encountered the adverse effects of climate change although they were small contributors. Extreme storms continuously knock at the boarder and the seas have no regard for boundaries.
The world carried on with business as usual when their counterparts needed them desperately. They didn’t care about their carbon footprint or how it would impact the future. Anthropogenic actions far outweighed natural causations and global warming occurred. Global temperatures have exceeded what scientists have predicted and the effects of such were drastic on this archipelago.
The Bahamas was such a serene place for visitors, now it’s just a country being taken over by water day by day. The citizens of Cat Island have adapted to such drastic changes and kept up the constant fishing and farming where they possibly can. The domestication of wildlife has occurred and Islanders have become one with nature. Daily swimming to catch fish and to train the younger islanders how to do the same.
Who would’ve imagined an island destination would’ve turned to this?