On the Grenadian island of Carriacou, even the dead are now climate victims

Carriacou’s Tibeau cemetery ‘has essentially gone out into the ocean’, Grenada’s prime minister, Dickon Mitchell, has said. Photograph: Kennisha Douglas

It’s a macabre picture: tombs, headstones and wreaths, lovingly selected by family members, floating into the oblivion of the ocean, and with them the remains of loved ones uprooted from their final resting place. Some are dragged back to land, washed up on beaches on the Grenadian island of Carriacou, transforming the beautiful Caribbean shoreline into a chaotic graveyard.

This disturbing reality, says Grenada’s prime minister, Dickon Mitchell, is a poignant example of the gravity of the climate crisis and its impact on his country.