An aerial view of an atoll in the Marshall Islands in May 2014. By Hilda Heine and Patrick Verkooijen April 10 Hilda Heine is president of the Marshall Islands and chairs the Climate Vulnerable Forum. Patrick Verkooijen is chief executive of the Global Center on Adaptation and Managing Partner of the Climate Vulnerable Forum.
If the Marshall Islands cannot be saved, how will others manage? By the year 2050, up to 1 billion people — about 10 percent of the world’s projected population — could become climate-change refugees because of rising ocean levels, according to the United Nations. If only for this reason, the world should not let the Marshall Islands drown.
Determined to act before it’s too late, the Marshall Islands are transforming themselves into a real-life laboratory for preparing for the effects of climate change. They are building sea walls, designing large coastal protection systems, integrating adaptation and resilience into national plans, and expanding capacity to store rainwater in both urban and rural communities. Planners are also exploring the possibility of raising new islands to physically increase the landmass above water.
Illogical hysteria
You think by hammering the carbon thing in America it will fix rising sea levels. Americans think they live on their own little planet. Dont worry China Russia South America and Africa wont comply.
If they didn’t do all that nuclear testing there for 12 years it would still be a paradise. The Military is still shooting missiles over there.
Too late. No Marshall plan can save the islands now.
And Al Gore promised NYC would be under water 5 years ago 🙄
Don’t let overpopulation capsize Guam
Teach them how to make floating homes, w/ my new school
Okay. I was thinking about letting the sea levels rise to drown the Marshall Islands. You've changed my mind. I won't.
IMHO: Don't let rising seas drown the Marshall Islands
There is a way to reverse climate change. What the world needs to do it replicate what happens naturally and turn sea water to snow at altitude. The largest snow makers the world can construct at over 6000 meters altitude.
Do not let tin foil hat dirty liar Democrats steal you blind, one volcanoe puts out more greenhouse gas in one event than man kind will in 3000 years
Too late, the consumer society is an unstoppable juggernaut.