The whole country must go to refuge for climate change

The entire population of the Maldives, a paradise island nation located in the Indian Ocean, is in danger of becoming the first refugees to be "chased" from the country of residence due to global warming.

The highest leader of the Maldives, President Mohamed Nasheed, considers this a situation to happen so to ensure his future and his family, the president of the island nation has bought himself lots of land. foreign countries and called on countries to allow the Maldivians to permanently flee because they no longer have a chance to return.

The entire population of the Maldivian island nation will have to leave their homeland
sea ​​level rise due to global warming (Photo: Popsci)

The Maldivian government said Australia was considered a potential new home for 350,000 Maldives citizens because the nation's land fund is still quite abundant and the climate is relatively good.

Although the islanders do not want to leave the beautiful country but 'moving is a situation that the government has planned,' the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The president does not want his people to live in exile under temporary huts for years or decades abroad so the Maldives government has for years accumulated money from tourism revenues to buy land for people.

If sea levels continue to rise as predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in the next 23 inches, 1,200 islands of the Maldives will be flooded. About 80% of the mainland will be less than 3 m above sea level and about 14 islands eroded, the Herald said.

A similar situation occurs with other island nations such as Kiribati and Tuvalu. The Tuvalu government negotiated for the Australian government to allow 12,000 Tuvalu immigrants.