The UN predicts that by 2100 , clime alteration could cause ocean stratum to spring up by as much as 59 centimetre . For the Maldives , an island country whose high point sit some two meters above sea level , such a drastic change would put most of the country underwater . Fearing a Waterworld scenario , the new Maldivian president has announce that the Maldives is in the market for a new country so the entire universe can someday relocate to high ground . Human rights activist Mohamed Nasheed was sworn in this week as prexy of the Republic of Maldives , a collection of atoll off the seacoast of India . Nasheed declare a new tourism enterprise to bring visitant to the island , say that the administration will rig aside a portion of the proceeds toward the purchase of a potential backup homeland :
“ We can do nothing to cease climate variety on our own and so we have to buy country elsewhere . It ’s an indemnity policy for the worst potential termination . After all , the Israelis [ began by bribe ] res publica in Palestine , ” said Nasheed , also sleep together as Anni .
It may sound like an outrageous doomsday scenario , but most of the Maldives is a mere 1.5 meter above ocean level , and the highest tip , on the island of Villingili , is 2.4 meters above sea degree . ensure that its citizenry has a place to call home in the next hundred eld might be its most prudent option :
Environmentalists say the issue get up the question of what rights citizens have if their mother country no longer exists . “ It ’s an unprecedented wake - up call , ” enounce Tom Picken , head of international climate change at friend of the Earth . “ The Maldives is left to resist for itself . It is a dupe of mood change because of rich countries . ”
[ The GuardianviaFuturismic ]
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