This essay is part of a (more or less) weekly feature on this blog that presents interesting stories from elsewhere in the world, particularly Africa, that are little reported in the American media. It's part of my campaign to get people to realize there is a lot going on in the world outside the US, Israel, Iraq, North Korea and Iran.
National Public Radio has a pair of stories on a place little reported on in both the western and African medias: the West African island nation of Cape Verde.
All Things Considered had a piece on a community of refugees from Cape Verde in the USA, who'd fled the archipelago because of drought.
Morning Edition had a story on its own story on how climate change is affecting Cape Verde and how residents are coping.
For something that supposedly is a figment of Al Gore's imagination, climate change is already having a big impact... most severely in countries whose greenhouse gas production is negligible.
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