{"id":37897,"date":"2024-02-26t20:24:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-26t20:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/?p=37897"},"modified":"2024-05-23t16:12:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23t16:12:54","slug":"sea-level-rise-ilaje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/sea-level-rise-ilaje\/","title":{"rendered":"essay | submerging communities: how climate change is impacting sea level rise in \u00ccl\u00e0je, nigeria \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
in 2019, i was received at the palace of the mese community monarch in ilaje, ondo state, nigeria. today, that palace has been swept away by the sea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ccl\u00e0je is a region in nigeria that is richly blessed as an oil-producing hub. the area also shares borders with nearby big cities including lagos, regarded as the biggest economic center in west africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
according to a community monarch in the region, life was once normal and fair, and years passed with residents living peaceful lives. this was until oil exploration came to the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00ccl\u00e0je, the only oil producing region in ondo state is one of nigeria\u2019s biggest repository of investments considering the tonnes of crude oil<\/a> produced daily produced in the region. unfortunately, the eventual outcome of these activities also kills both the green and blue economy. <\/p>\n\n\n scientists and environmentalists in recent years have confirmed that these activities have exacerbated the impacts of climate change on rising sea levels<\/a>, causing many residents to grow anxious about the safety of their region. local leaders have reported that their physical environments are complete shadows of how they used to be. in many places, the ocean now resides by people’s windows, threatening to take entire homes away. where there were once beaches, now they are replaced by mud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n it was like a nightmare for the residents of ayetoro, mese, awoye and gbagira, communities of ilaje, around march 2019 when they experienced an unusual sea incursion which came in the middle of the night to displace the dwellers of their abodes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n to make things worse, despite the oil richness, the renegotiated global memorandum of understanding <\/a>signed in 2016 by chevron \u2014 the oil company most prominent in the area \u2014 has not ensured adaptive infrastructural measures for the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n