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Standing amid a terrain of rugged red craters that looks like something from Mars, Brazilian farmer Ubiratan Lemos Abade extends his arms, pointing to two possible futures for this land fast turning to desert.Like Abade, he says farmers need technology to survive the encroaching desert -- but nothing too high-tech.

We need a sea wall from the erosion problem and i also told him i was glad that he was the president and i believed he was the man for the job, and i know the folks over here were quite happy to have him as president. >> did he offer any specific solutions or mention what kind of help he'll provide to make shower that your island survives? >> we did not go into any details about, you know, exactly what we needed or how much of it, but we did talk about -- i told him that one thing we were encouraged with is that he had reduced like regulations and the time it takes for a study, lime environmen...

Is exacerbating the erosion problem and there's other issues, too, having to do with changes in gulf stream patterns, but many scientists say climate change is a real problem for your island. you don't seem convinced of it. >> i know there's changes in the climate. i mean, i can see it. i'm on a boat pretty much every day for most of the day, and i -- i can see changes in the patterns of the weather and it's definitely changing. i'm just not totally convinced it's manmade, that man is causing it. >> all right. mayor james eskridge, thank you so much. really appreciate your time, sir. >> okay. ...

And -- and it's at such a rapid rate that we're using the shoreline that that's what we're focused on is the erosion. >> you said you wanted the president to bill a wall around the island. can the wall stop the erosion that you're talking about? >> definitely. on the west side of the island we were losing probably 25 to 30 feet of shore line a year, and they completed a sea wall on the west side in 1989, i believe, and we haven't lost one inch since then so it works, but we need it on the east side, and around the rest of the island, and if we can get that, we'll be here for hundreds of years ...