Katy Tur was an NBC reporter based in London when she was asked to abruptly leave everything and come follow the Trump presidential campaign. She was a highly experienced reporter, yet unknown. She wrote about the campaign in her 2017 book, “Unbelievable.” For me, it was a very fun read.

But there were disturbing parts. During rallies, with reporters confined to a “press cage” of bicycle fences and surrounded by thousands of Trump supporters, Trump would rain down condemnation on the press. “Little Katy” Tur was a favorite target. He would call her out by name, point to her, and call her a liar and a “third rate reporter.” People en masse would turn to her and shout their insults and curses.

She was a young, single woman being targeted amidst a very hostile crowd. “Inside, I’m terrified,” she wrote. “Men are standing on their chairs to get a look at me. They want to see me as they jeer.”

Her Mom sent frantic texts, fearing for her safety. Trump staffers, recognizing the danger Trump had put her in, asked Secret Service agents to escort Katy and her crew to their vehicles. This is what Katy and other reporters, just doing their job, endured every day. And it happened only because of Donald Trump. Nothing like this had ever happened before.

The abuse continued online, from both Trump and his supporters. Tur, a definite target, wrote, “They call me ugly and dumb. They accuse me of sleeping my way to my job. They go after my family, and especially my father, who is transgender. They call me a c**t. They threaten my life. The longer this campaign goes on, the more I expect them to take their online rage into the real world.” One time, in front of Trump Tower, a Trump supporter screamed abuse at her and then spit in her face.

The crowd behavior kept growing uglier, the yelling more abusive. One time, the crowd chanted, “Drop dead, media! Drop dead, media!” For much of the campaign, NBC provided armed protection to all of its employees covering the Trump campaign, both at the rallies and outside of them. This had never been needed in a presidential campaign.

Trump continued calling out Katy Tur by name. One time, security had to stop people trying to get to her. Another time, a CNN reporter sent a picture of a creepy bald man who wouldn’t stop saying her name, and told her to watch out for him.

Trump staffers assured Katy that Trump actually respected her work. One time, before the Access Hollywood tape surfaced, Trump entered a TV studio, walked right up to her, put his hands on her shoulders, and kissed her on the cheek (much to her anger). But for him, criticizing the press was a game, a crowd-pleaser. He got too much mileage out of it. But Katy Tur and others always feared that one crazy fan who didn’t realize it was just a schtick.

The targeting of Katy Tur continues. A couple weeks ago, she said the boos and taunts at rallies are only part of it. “What you do not see are the nasty letters or packages or emails, the threats of physical violence. ‘I hope you get raped and killed,’ one person wrote to me just this week. Not just me, but a couple of my female colleagues as well.”

This is happening only because President Trump continually incites it. More recently, he has amped it up with denunciations of the press as “the enemy of the people.” For the media targets, it’s not a game.

For the past five or six years, I’ve been following the plight of Kiribati, a Pacific nation of 33 islands. About 110,000 people live on Kiribati. They’ve been watching rising sea levels eat away at their homeland. While President Trump has repeatedly described climate change as a hoax, nobody on Kiribati believes that. Year by year, they see their homeland disappearing.

About half of the Kiribati people live on Tarawa, an island which saw some of the fiercest fighting of World War II. By 2050, 50-80 percent of Tarawa will be covered with ocean water, which is already contaminating fresh water sources, making it impossible to grow food, and threatening livelihoods. Tides reach into villages; a while back, I read about one village which had to be abandoned. Some islands have already disappeared, forcing people to crowd onto Tarawa.

Kiribati has been inhabited for about 5000 years. But in the years ahead, the entire population will probably need to relocate. Kiribati bought 6000 acres on Fiji’s main island. That will be their new “homeland.” They will continue to exist as a people, but not as a nation. There are discussions about enabling the Kiribati people to continue being recognized as a national body, what is called “ex-situ nationhood,” but I don’t see it happening. It would be akin to recognizing Jews scattered around the world, prior to the establishment of Israel, as a “nation” of sorts, giving them international recognition as a people even while they live as citizens of a geographic country. It’ll be interesting to see what ultimately happens–for them, and for other threatened island nations.

For Kiribati and others, it’s too late for the world to take action against global warming. Processes are in motion, and can’t be stopped.

Former Kiribati president Anote Tong said, “The science is pretty clear: zero emissions, we’ll still go underwater. Unless some drastic work is undertaken, there will be no option. That’s the reality. It’s not a hope. It’s not a desire. It’s the brutal reality.” He said moving is “a matter of survival.”

Many other island nations–the Seychelles, Maldives, Tuvalu, Palau, Solomons, and others–face the same thing, as rising oceans are forcing people to relocate.