GABRIEL Sakeru, a resident of Maileppet, South Siberut, Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, remembered the white sand of Maileppet Beach that once spawned 300 meters offshore. Today, the beach is only three to 10 meters from the roadside. “It was a place for us to play after school. Now it is almost gone,” he said on October 9. Maileppet Beach has shrunk because of sea level rise and abrasion, proof of climate change right before our very