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Fighting Climate Change the Maldives Way - Buying Land in Other Countries!
THE country will soon begin to divert a portion of the country's billion-dollar annual tourist revenue for the purpose. At the moment, Sri Lanka, India and Australia seem to be on its radar.
Mohamed Nasheed, who takes power officially today in the capital, Male, admitted the chain of 1200 islands and coral atolls dotted 800 kilometres from the tip of India is likely to disappear under the waves if the current pace of climate change continues to raise sea levels.
The islands have a population of 30,000 persons. Climate change is a very real threat to Maldivians, no abstract concept.
Male itself is the world's most densely populated town: 100,000 people cram into two square kilometres.
The United Nations forecasts that the seas are likely to rise by up to 59 centimetres by 2100 due to global warming. Most parts of the Maldives are just 1.5 metres above water. The President said even a "small rise" in sea levels would inundate large parts of the archipelago.
"We can do nothing to stop climate change on our own and so we have to buy land elsewhere," Nasheed said. "It's an insurance policy for the worst possible outcome. After all, the Israelis [began by buying] land in Palestine."
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