May 1, 2009 at 1:11 pm by Luanne Bradley
Sink or Swim? President of the Maldives Gets Busy Bailing Out His Island Nation
Ever want to just pack up and move…your country?
If you haven’t heard by now, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives insists buying a new homeland may be the only option for the 300,000 islanders who selected him last year as the country’s first democratically-elected leader.
That’s because nightmarish climate change could drown the emerald chain of 1,200 islands and 26 coral atolls that make up the territory located 435 miles southwest of Sri Lanka in the Laccadine Sea of the Indian Ocean.
Location, location, location.
Yes, that’s the draw to this …
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