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...increase in sea level will have disastrous effects on our country,” Tong said, “well before the half-meter rise projected by scientists in the next 50 years...
...walls as protection, but we do not have the resources,” Tong said. “We just tell people to move back [from the shore], but we cannot keep moving for we are in danger of falling off the other side...
...Tong, for whom this issue has been pressingly clear for over a decade, bemoaned the lack of interest and focus this problem has received on the international level...
...There has never been any discussion to date about what to do about the 100,000 people of Kiribati who will lose their country,” Tong said. “We made appeals in regional and international courts; I was reacting emotionally; I was shouting, and nobody was listening...
...Climate change has finally gained prominence on the international stage—the U.N. 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...