Pacific countries face more complex problems than sinking
Other effects of climate change are more urgent, more varied and more unpredictable
“HOW DOES a nation survive being swallowed by the sea?” So went the tagline for “Anote’s Ark”, a documentary film following Anote Tong, then president of Kiribati, as he toured the world warning that his islands were drowning. In 2014, he bought 20 square kilometres of land in Fiji, for Kiribati’s 120,000-odd people to move to as a “last resort”.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Moving story”
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