Cracked, collapsed walls, damaged roofs and sunken buildings are commonplace in Bargny, a coastal town just outside the Senegalese capital Dakar. The cause: rising sea levels linked to global warming. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, populations living along Africa's coastline are particularly at risk.
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00:00I'm afraid, and I don't doubt that if we don't find a solution, we will all disappear.
00:15Three quarters of the house is engulfed.
00:18We don't have a solution to adapt.
00:30What we have for our own means of transportation to adapt are tires, bags of empty rice filled with sand.
00:48The problem of climate change is a visual and real problem.
01:01No one doubts what climate change is doing to us, the poor.
01:18We have to adapt.
01:22We have to adapt.
01:27We have to adapt.
01:32We have to adapt.
01:37I am collecting the dam that collapsed with the advance of the sea.
01:49That's what we're doing.
01:52We're going to do it little by little and with our means of transport.
02:08And if nothing is done, tell yourself that in a short time this area will be swept away from the map.
02:14And today I think that we are really inviting the state of Senegal to put in place what we call a policy of relocation of the victims of the advance of the sea.
02:21And among other things, to launch what we call, to put in place what we call, the dams.
02:25Whether it is to reverse the advance of the sea.