The Environmental Issues of the Republic of the Marshall Islands From a Global Technoscape Point of View

核実験による強制移住

廃棄物処理

MIRAB型経済

海面上昇

グローバル・ケアスケープ

Global-technoscape

nuclear exodus

waste disposal

MIRAB-economy

sea level rising

Global Carescapes

The Republic of the Marshall Islands, an expansive group of islands located in the Water planet, has been burdened with severalfold of environmental problems. The aftereffects from the nuclear-testing still continuously plague the country. The inevitable relocation from the remote islands, where people led traditional subsistence lifestyles, to the main island Majuro, forced its people to adapt to the rapid cultural changes due to urbanization, bringing about various social distortions. The school non-attendance rate has reached 30-0x1.41240bfb4122p-4nd the unemployment rate has gone beyond 30%.0 The Marshall Islands is supported by MIRAB economy [MI : MR : Remittance (to relatives), A : Aid (from colonial powers), B : Bureaucratic leadership], typical of the Pacific Island Nation region. The islands' consumption rate has gone way beyond its domestic productivity, obliging the country to rely on foreign assistance. A motorized society and imported food have led to a sharp rise in malnourishment in children and diabetes in adults. The products from such a society are impending in the form of mass waste overflowing the islands' minimal land space. Further, coastal erosion is seriously progressing and danger of submersion due to global warming effects has been a long called-for issue.This account studies the environmental burdens troubling the island country by shedding light on issues of regional demotorization and on regions where road driving overlap with traditional culture. It also examines from Global-technoscape perspective, the people's efforts in challenging to revive their island and how the wisdom of people living in such a tiny Pacific atoll gather and work in a concerted endeavor.