Having a sea view house close to the sea is a dream for many people, and it is a pleasant thing to face the sea in the spring.
However, in such a country, all the houses are envied by everyone, but the local residents are not happy, because their houses often enter the water, and the sea view houses have become sea houses.
This country is Kiribati, a country that is about to disappear due to rising sea levels.
The Republic of Kiribati, an island nation located in the Pacific Ocean. The entire country consists of 33 islands and atolls of different sizes, with a land area of 811 square kilometers and a population of 116,000.
Although Kiribati has a small land area, but due to the large number of islands, Kiribati has an exclusive economic zone of 3.5 million square kilometers of the sea, and it is reasonable to say that with this large area of sea, Kiribati should be able to develop well, just like Nauru and Palau, becoming a rich country that everyone envies.
But Kiribati not only did not develop because of this ocean, but also became the poorest country, and the land was on the verge of being submerged.
Because the terrain here is so low, Kiribati is extremely low, with no peaks and lakes, and the highest point is only two meters above sea level.
With global warming, sea levels rise, the land of Kiribati is constantly encroached upon, many villages at high tide, the sea will flow into the home, really to the point of getting out of bed to swim, the scenic sea view room has become a water intake room.
In the past, the rising sea would also flow into the house, but it would soon recede, but now the tide is more and more, it is more and more difficult to recede, and many times the sea water of the last high tide has not completely receded, and the new tide has poured in.
In order to avoid the water, the inhabitants of Kiribati have come up with ways to deal with it, and the houses they have built are tall towers of wood and bamboo, leaving a large open space underneath, as far away from the ground as possible.
Coral reefs were dug into the ocean floor and dams were built to ward off the sea, but the project was as fragile as a thin sheet of paper in the face of large waves.
In order not to drown in their sleep by the rising tide, the villagers of Kiribati had to abandon their existing houses and continue to relocate inland, but a new place that had not lived for several years would face such a dilemma, and the previous houses had been completely submerged.
But these islands are not large, and if they can't be relocated a few times, they will have nowhere to go, and people will have to move to other big islands, but the situation on the big islands is just as bad, although there is still enough land to build houses, but the sea continues to rise, and the size of the islands is decreasing.
At the same time, seawater continues to infiltrate the land, resulting in increased salinization of the land, a large reduction in crop yields, and a year of hard work, and the grain can only barely feed itself.
The continuous infiltration of seawater, the pollution of a large number of freshwater resources, and the beginning of a shortage of drinking water.
This is exacerbated by the growing number of people on the big islands, for which the government has to limit the supply of water, supplying only one hour a day, barely enough to survive.
Water and food are scarce, coconuts become the best things, coconut meat can be eaten, coconut water can quench thirst.
The dense population makes resources even more scarce, food shortages, water shortages, drug shortages, and even diapers have become scarce items.
Kiribati's plight has also attracted the attention of the international community, according to climatologists, Kiribati will probably be submerged by the sea in 50 years, completely disappeared, and the process can not be changed by manpower, Kiribati's end is already doomed, now it is only a matter of time.
In order to solve the problem of the survival of the country, Kiribati approached its nearest neighbor, Fiji, and held negotiations, hoping to buy some land for the survival of its people, but so far there has been no reply.
Kiribati again found the former big brother of the United States, hoping to be able to take them in, and gave them great hopes, in their view, the United States territory is huge, to give them no obstacles, but the result is a big disappointment, the United States put forward a series of harsh conditions, this negotiation failed.
The road to the acquisition of territory was impassable, and Kiribati had to resort to the second option, preparing for emigration.
Kiribati is ready to start with young people, the government has opened technical colleges, carrying out mechanical, electrical, chemical and other disciplines, while learning English and foreign customs, preparing them to go abroad, so that they can find good jobs abroad in the future, settle down, and then take their relatives to live.
But this way is tantamount to drinking and quenching thirst, and the large loss of young people will put the country in a more difficult situation, and the island country that was once the most beautiful island country in the Central Pacific Islands has fallen into this field, not knowing where the road is.
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