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Show overview
An impossible choice has published 3 episodes during 2022. That works out to roughly 1 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a near-daily cadence.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 23 min and 27 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-GB-language News show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 3.9 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by The Guardian.
From the publisher
Across the Pacific islands, people are facing a devastating decision: stay on the land of their ancestors or leave as the islands become increasingly uninhabitable due to climate change.
Latest Episodes
Part 3: What does the world owe the Pacific?
In the final episode of our three-part series, we speak to Pacific politicians fighting it out with much larger, wealthier and more heavily polluting countries on the world stage; Pacific leaders facing the gargantuan task of attempting to relocate entire villages, infrastructure and even burial grounds as communities are threatened; and legal experts about what options Pacific countries have for compensation, to find out what the future is for the Pacific in the face of the climate crisis
Part 2: Leave your island or fight to stay?
We travel across the Pacific to islands in Papua New Guinea where people are being forced to leave due to rising sea levels, and to the tiny nation of Tuvalu where people are fighting to remain. We speak to islanders who have been forced to make devastating decisions due to a climate crisis not of their making
Part 1: When climate change arrives at your door
In the first episode of this three-part series, we look at how families, communities and Pacific leaders are facing huge decisions about the future of their islands and trying to figure out if they can stay on their land – land that defines their identity, on which their ancestors are buried – or whether they’ll be forced to leave