On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/10/maldives-climate-change > > > Paradise almost lost: Maldives seek to buy a new homeland > > Maldives The highest land point on the Maldives is only 2.4 metres > above sea level. Photograph: Corbis/Craig Tuttle > > The Maldives will begin to divert a portion of the country's > billion-dollar annual tourist revenue into buying a new homeland - as > an insurance policy against climate change that threatens to turn the > 300,000 islanders into environmental refugees, the country's first > democratically elected president has told the Guardian.
IIRC, the nation of Nauru has a deal with the Australian government which guarantees them relocation to a new (currently sovereign Australian) island if Nauru were to be submerged due to global sea level rise. Thaths -- "Silly Indians. Our God made their God" -- Homer J. Simpson
