Is climate change about to take out a country?

[marmar]

MANILA, PHILIPPINES—Entire communities on some islands in the Maldives have been forced to relocate because of rising sea levels, a Maldive minister said Thursday in a reminder that global warming is taking a heavy toll on low-lying island nations.

Climate change skeptics only have to look at his country, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, and other sea-level nations to see its horrific effects on the environment, Environment Minister Mohamed Aslam said.

"In the past two to three decades, we have relocated entire populations from one island to the other simply because life wasn't sustainable in those islands," he told an Asian Development Bank conference on climate induced migration.

He did not elaborate on how many people were forced to relocate but typically the islands are populated by a few hundred or thousand people each. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1054159--people-forced-to-move-as-world-s-lowest-country-sinks-under-rising-seas

[PDJane]

1. Yes.

And it will get worse.

[polichick]

2. In the Republimoron alternate universe the Maldives don't exist...

This is just a story socialists made up to justify the gubmint gittin' in their bidness.

[Zywiec]

3. Is this the first community in the history of the planet to have had to relocate?

I wonder what happened to them before the internet?