An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/entire-country-evacuated-because-climate-211026350.html
An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/entire-country-evacuated-because-climate-211026350.html
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> Tuvalu, a small island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate **all of its over 11,000 inhabitants**, due to rising sea levels caused by climate change that mean, essentially, that the low-lying country has no feasible future.
> It’s a sobering reminder of the incredibly damaging effects that global warming is having on our planet. Tuvalu is only 6.5 feet above sea level on average, meaning that rising tides will almost certainly be devastating to the region. Fierce storms, facilitated by rising temperatures, could make matters even worse for an already very vulnerable population.
> The nation signed an agreement with Australia in 2023 to set up a migration scheme in which 280 residents will permanently settle on the continent **per year** through a climate visa program.
> Australia’s climate visas are allocated based on a lottery system. This week, the Australian High Commission of Tuvalu revealed that it had received “extremely high levels of interest in the ballot with 8,750 registrations, which includes family members of primary registrants.” In other words, **moving every Tuvaluan is taking on increasing urgency even as demand for the program spikes.**
> Besides relocating all its residents, Tuvalu has attempted to **3D-scan its islands to preserve its cultural heritage if they’re lost to the waters.**
> Tuvalu is far from the only nation facing a crisis caused by sea levels that are rising even faster than predicted. According to the UN Human Development Program, **increased coastal flooding could endanger over 70 million people worldwide. By 2050, hundreds of highly populated cities will face increased risks of flooding thanks to climate change.**
Climate refugees will become a thing if not already.
Read Gwynn Dyer’s book Intervention Earth, which talks in part about the impact climate refugees will have. Chilling stuff.
Is it not more likely that plate tectonics are to blame for many of these small ridge islands becoming uninhabitable?
*1st country to be evacuated
Wait until Sri Lanka needs to start moving people. Shitshow of all shitshows
Edit. I was thinking Bangladesh and wrote Sri Lanka
Good thing there were never floods before alleged “global warming”.
“But how much would it cost?”
It’ll be much easier to deal with domestic migration (actual overpopulation), famine, droughts, political violence towards climate refugees, climate-induced pandemics, and economic devastation regardless, right?
Trying the fossil fuel industry and the corporate media for crimes against humanity would be the soft approach for them. It’s still important to go after them in court just for appearances’ sake, but I think we’ll be too far along for it to really matter. Seizing the ill-gotten wealth of the fossil fuel industrialists won’t matter as much when we would need to use a lot of it to keep our heads above water literally.
It’s not going to get any better with international division and corpse-democracy.
I wonder how easy my life would be if I could just deny reality and facts all the time. Must be so easy being a republican, just get to treat people like shit and be justified in it.
And the orange man wants to gut the EPA and burn more coal and oil in time where the rest of the world tries to improve, and this is the result.
If we are lucky we might live long enough to die in the water wars.
How is this news to anyone, we knew this 30 years ago, nothing was done
“Why don’t they just sell their land?” – Ben Shapiro
Tuvalu only really has one “accidental” industry. When top level internet domains were allocated they got “.TV” and they ran with it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tv
It would be a lot fucking cheaper to buy them hipwaders. Alternatively, send them pilings. Or possibly pool noodles. I dunno, but there is a range of solutions here, that do not involve me giving up my lifestyle.
I have a plan, I’m going to move there now, get citizenship, and then when everyone else is gone, I’ll proclaim myself king.
Imagine being MAGA and still not “believing” in climate change.
And yet, Dubai, and every ocean front property from here to timbuktu being just fine. odd.
Countries can already barely handle a few 100k of immigrants in crisis. What happens when 1billion people are fleeing the heat of some equator areas? Things will accelerate.
OMG! What will we do? Let’s see now: what percentage of the world’s people live in a country only 6.5 ft above sea level? I could believe it could be a whopping 0.000000001 % . Truly a world crisis!