Una de las primeras propuestas de Mohamed Nasheed al ser juramentado como presidente de Maldivas fue encontrar la forma de migrar a todos sus compatriotas en los próximos años. Gracias a una campaña iniciada por el dictador Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Maldivas es reconocida unánimemente como la primera nación en vías de extinción, por culpa del cambio climático.
The Maldives is an archipelago of 1,190 islands in the Indian Ocean, with an average elevation of four feet. Even a slight rise in global sea levels, which many scientists predict will occur by the end of this century, could submerge most of the Maldives. Last November, when Nasheed proposed moving all 300,000 Maldivians to safer territory, he named India, Sri Lanka and Australia as possible destinations and described a plan that would use tourism revenues from the present to establish a sovereign wealth fund with which he could buy a new country — or at least part of one — in the future. “We can do nothing to stop climate change on our own, and so we have to buy land elsewhere,” Nasheed said in November.
Sigue leyendo Wanted – A New Home for My Country – NYTimes.com.