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.

hope to go and have some funD
- Skinny 5-11-2009 11:07 am [add a comment]

Slightly off topic, here is one reason the Times is failing: you click on Maldives in the article, and you get some short, fairly generic statistics from "the Columbia encyclopedia" and a bunch of links to Times stories mentioning the word "Maldives." Frustrated, I went to Wikipedia and learned all about the Maldives.
- tom moody 5-11-2009 3:02 pm [add a comment]

wikipedia is the enemy of msm.
- bill 5-11-2009 4:17 pm [add a comment]