Word: kiribatiã
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...Kiribati??s president, Anote Tong, delivered a stirring plea to a packed audience at the Science Center yesterday in which he urged audience members to focus their attention on the already salient repercussions that rising sea levels have on inhabitants of island countries...
...debate on climate begins this week—but Tong views this shift as too little, too late for island countries that will be affected regardless of “whatever we do.” As a result, he has begun the early stages of Kiribati??s coping strategy—an eventual full-scale evacuation of citizens to various recipient countries...
...Tong said he hopes to attract international attention to the impending onslaught of what he called “environmental refugees,” not only for the sake of his own people, but also because he views Kiribati??s situation as a precursor to the larger problems to come...
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