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With Sea Levels Rising, A Small Island Nation Buys A New Home
2014-07-11 08:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fast Company: Kiribati's escape plan is a Fijian island. Rich people like to buy property on tropical islands for privacy on vacation. For the people of the nation Kiribati, whose government recently announced that it purchased land on a Fiji island more than 1,200 miles away, the reasons are more dire. The property is an escape plan. Kiribati is a tiny island country with a population of 100,000 people in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It faces an existential crisis: Within a few decades, as sea levels...
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