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‘I’m afraid for our children’: living with the climate crisis in the – in pictures

The Philippines is one of the countries most at risk of the climate emergency due to its low-lying island geography. With sea temperatures rising, the country deals with increasingly frequent and intense typhoons, rising sea-levels that threaten coastal communities, and changing rainfall patterns that disrupt agriculture.

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A family with three children standing inside their flooded house. he country is one of the smallest contributors to climate change but one of the places most affected by its impacts. Gideon Mendel’s visceral portraits from his project Drowning World show people in Bulacan province dealing with the climate emergency in their daily lives.
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Abel Binoya | San Miguel village, Hagonoy municipality

It’s been flooded for six months in our street, since Typhoon Emong hit Bulacan. It was not like that before, the water would only last about a week, even if it was a big flood. I work as a tricycle driver and you can’t pick up any passengers because it’s flooded everywhere. When it floods, it’s really difficult.

Photograph: Gideon Mendel




A man standing in water in his house. The weather has really lost its direction, and that is the effect of climate change. Here in the north we used to have rain in August for half a month, fifteen days of rain, fifteen days of sunshine. Now, that pattern is gone.
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