Well!! Well!! I’m not insane…Was just proposing a possible relocation option to the newly elected President of Maldives, Mohammed Nasheed who recently went public that he is on the look out for a new home for his people. Relocating a country!!! A big business opportunity for the movers possibly, but however weird it may sound, it also has an aura of graveness about it.
Climate change & Global warming have played major roles in causing the sea levels to rise around these islands and possibly sink them in due course.
Middle Eastern countries like the UAE, Qatar & Bahrain are going full throttle on creating more beach based real estate by venturing into mega Island / reclamation projects, One calls it the Palm, the other the Pearl and another the Petals while one even builds an entire group of islands in the shape of the World… Seeing all this, a wild thought went through me. Dubai is finding it tough to come to terms with the world wide recession and is going slow on one of the Palm Islands. Why not lease out one of them or atleast the ‘Maldives’ in the World Islands they are building to the Maldivian government and ask the whole of Maldives to relocate to Dubai.
On a more serious note it is a rather deeply depressing idea that Maldives could be the first nation on Earth to lose their homeland due to Global warming and rising sea levels.
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