Island residents are preparing «Kiribati», in the Pacific Ocean, to the worst-case scenario as a result of climate change, which is the sinking of their island in the ocean during the entire 20 to 85 years because of rising sea levels.
In an emergency deal, Kiribati bought an area of 20 kilometers of forest on the island of «Fiji» at a cost of 8.8 million dollars in the case of their need to evacuate some of the population, numbering about 100 thousand citizens.
The President of Kiribati, unti Tong, the hope is not to evacuate everyone in the new island, and he stressed that it is absolutely necessary.
He told «Associated Press»: «This will not apply to me personally, but would apply more to the younger generation, because the transition is not an optional issue for them, it will be a matter of life or death».
The «Tong» that his island suffers from increasing the proportion of salt in the fresh water supply to them, and changing weather patterns and storms, and the high level of the ocean, which began covering the action parts of the island, adding that the sea rising at a rate of 1.2 cm per year, which is four times the global average.
The site «Policy Mick» news that the U.S. «Tong» awaits parliamentary approval on the deal is then the process of mass transport in cooperation with the Fijian authorities.
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