Climate Justice Against the Stream
As Taiwan’s summers get increasingly hotter, water becomes life in the most literal sense. Under the scorching summer heat, the residents of Tausa/Tawsay (山里部落), a Sediq buluo (部落/village) in Southern Hualien like to cool off at the nearby riverbed of the Fengping River. It’s a stunning scene–as one of Taiwan’s last free-flowing rivers, the Fengping majestically emerges from the towering mountain range, meandering into the valley where it eventually joins the larger Xiuguluan and flows into the Pacific Ocean...