http://www.impactlab.com/2008/11/11/maldives-seek-to-buy-a-new-homeland/ A laboratory of the future human experience Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:47:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.impactlab.com/2008/11/11/maldives-seek-to-buy-a-new-homeland/comment-page-1/#comment-10908 Maldives Seek To Buy A New Homeland « The KeelyNet Blog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:04:00 +0000 http://www.impactlab.com/2008/11/11/maldives-seek-to-buy-a-new-homeland/#comment-10908 [...] Posted by keelynet on November 22, 2008 These people are very smart to be working on this now before their islands are totally inundated. The beginning of a trend methinks if the oceans rise as predicted. Think of all those millions of displaced people the rest of the world living at higher altitudes will have to deal with! “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.” - Source [...] [...] Posted by keelynet on November 22, 2008 These people are very smart to be working on this now before their islands are totally inundated. The beginning of a trend methinks if the oceans rise as predicted. Think of all those millions of displaced people the rest of the world living at higher altitudes will have to deal with! “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.” – Source [...]

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