Waves wash over abandoned homes in a Mexican village, slowly being swallowed by the sea -- a symbol of the climate change effects being felt by the major fossil fuel producer. Located in the southern state of Tabasco, El Bosque is the first settlement in the country to fall victim to the rising tides, forcing some 700 people from their homes.
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00:30There is a teacher, and there is the elementary school, and some children who are here.
00:35Have you organized that?
00:37Yes.
00:38And the teachers are from here?
00:39Yes.
00:40All the time we have heard about climate change, but we never thought that it would come to us.
00:46We would be one of the first to see that this is such a normal colony,
00:57that we never imagined that climate change would be the first.
01:02One day, grab what you can and run.
01:08Because the truth is, it is already too much.
01:13We wanted to fight right there.
01:15People helped you and we put rubble, but the sea did not give us a chance.
01:25Run and get as little as you can.
01:44The sea is claiming its things.
01:46My father tells me all this because they came here when all this was still water.
01:51Yes, all this was water.
01:52He says that as the years went by, people were making houses and moving away from the sea.
01:57Yes.
01:58And now it is looking for its same height as it was before.
02:04It was difficult.
02:06Because as I told you, this is where I grew up.
02:08This is where we were born and this is our source of work, fishing.
02:12There is no other job.
02:14Yes.
02:15Most of the time I stayed here because it is not the same to go to the city.