UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES: If rising oceans and seas engulf the Maldives and Tuvalu, will those countries be wiped off the map? “This is the biggest tragedy that a people, a country, a nation can face,” Mohamed Nasheed, former president of the Maldives, told AFP. If warming trends continue, the oceans could rise by nearly one additional meter (39 inches) around the Pacific and Indian Ocean islands by the end of the century. “The other thing that I argue is that statehood is a fiction, legal fiction we created for purposes of international law. So we should be able to come up with another fiction to encompass these deterritorialised states,” Atapattu added.

Source: The Nation October 10, 2022 09:39 UTC