2025-11-05
27 分钟This is The Guardian.
Hi, my name is Kari Baraka.
I'm the author of an essay called A Drowning World, Kenya's Quiet Slide Under Water.
which was published in the Guardian Longwood in 2022.
I first started thinking about this story around 2019-2018
because there had been a case of a bunch of lakes in Kenya which had started to all of a sudden rise and you hear about the first one called Victoria which is near my home town was rising and it was entering people's homes like flooding people's property but then I started hearing about other lakes in Kenya where the same thing was happening.
And then like father failed to hear about lakes in Tanzania, in Uganda, Burundi.
So basically, lakes in East Africa, which were all expanding at the same time.
And so I'm wondering, is there like a common cause to all these things?
And it may be like right this essay.
And even though this essay focuses almost entirely on the lakes in Kenya,
but it's the same things that apply to the lakes in Kenya applied to all the lakes in East Africa,
which were all rising around the same time.
In the time this, since the story was published, the legs of pointage rise,
even though it hasn't been as dramatic as it was in the late 2010s.
And I think the interesting thing to think about is that, of course,
like it's highly likely that this rising is due to climate change.
But if you stretch it out for like over a longer period, these legs have been big in the past,
even as recently as 100 years ago, some of these legs were bigger than they are right now.
So these legs have always been undergoing a constant cycle of expansion and reduction.