President-elect of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed wants to invest funds
to to buy a new homeland as rising sea levels threaten to submerge the
island archipelago.
Most of the landmass of the Maldive Islands stands little more than a
meter above sea level, and Nasheed told Daily Planet Media that money
would be invested in a land buying fund from the profits of the
country's tourist industry.
Environmentalists believe that if global warming continues unchecked
the Maldives will disappear this century under the waves of the Indian
Ocean.
The President-elect said he had discussed buying land with a number of
countries including sites in Sri Lanka and India that were in close
proximity and with similar cultures.
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