The Maldives is being swallowed by the sea. Can it adapt?

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The archipelago has bet its future on construction of an artificial, elevated island that could house a majority of the population of nearly 555,000 people

The nation’s entire land area is just 115 square miles sitting in 35,000 square miles of ocean, with few islands bigger than 300 acres.Threaded together, the land and sea are the fabric of Maldivian identity. The relationship is one of fundamental fluidity. “When I say land, I include the water,” said Saeedh. “For us, the water isn’t separate from the land; the ‘land’ is the water and the island as a whole, because that’s where we live.

“Two-thirds of the population can be housed on these two main islands,” said Ismail Shan Rasheed, planning strategist at the Hulhumalé Development Corporation. Each tower is home to multiple islands’ worth of people. Moosa moved from a one-room flat in Malé, which she shared with her sister and two nephews, into a three-room apartment on the top floor of “H-2.” “There are so many people living here,” she said.“We don’t know our neighbors.”

And the hope is that the City of Hope can solve some of the nation’s other ailments by providing better schools and good jobs in a country where unemployment has reached 15 percent.

 

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Bro its swallowd by bulldozers destroying those reefs so you ppl will give money to build artificial ones n ruling elites like MohamedNasheed n his bro & cronies AslamAslamtey can pocket it! For more info saveMaldives SaveMaldivesMV

I wish the Welsh would keep their own rain water ,we have enough of our own thank you

Great achievement

No bueno

The people that live on the Maldives must evacuate and abandon the country for a new place to live

Gonna be a challenge.

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Peacemaker at the sea

Theoretically, when a rising heat melted the ice caps ,i mean all of the ice glaciers , It will flodded the werld.

Oh my goodness..its moving.... The reason y its beeing swallowed.. Or probably oceans are getting deeper ,by a melting Ice caps from artics...

Call the Chinese... They can build islands anywhere.. !

Awesome !

The archipelago has staked its future on building an elevated artificial island that could house most of the population of nearly 555,000.

Is that, 'Speedo Knight'? Protector and savior to all in need as long as they live close to the beach.

Grotesque alarmism. Gutter level.

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: L'arcipelago ha scommesso il suo futuro sulla costruzione di un'isola artificiale sopraelevata che potrebbe ospitare la maggior parte della popolazione di quasi 555.000 persone.

It’s time to just move

हर हर महादेव

Unfortunate!!!

The loss of tourism will be a huge blow

In near future, many regions need to merge. It's not time to be so egoistic. Like.. Srilanka need to join India, pacific island need to join nearby larger islands like papua or Australia or Aotearoa. Politics sucks. We human create nations to make it easier to develop regions.

We have to find new solution to survive the impact climate change.

Hey muscular man, let plant mangrove around your beach! Don't waste your energy only fuck a women. 😃

Maldives has two main problems: rising sea and waste management. Why don't they take a Japanese solution: build artificial islands of garbage? Japan jdr_secretariat jica_direct_en can you send experts from Kobe to the Maldives to do this?

So many qns. Let’s start with, Why are cars allowed or scooters for that matter? The islands including Male are tiny. Physician heal thyself as the saying goes or at least give that impression.

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