The Government of the Maldives Islands had it’s first underwater meeting

October 25th, 2009

On October 17, the government of Maldives in the Indian Ocean had an underwater governmental meeting. The ministers were wearing scuba diving equipment and the meeting took place at a depth of 3.8 meter!
The meeting was a signal to the rest of the world. The country has more than 1,000 islands, but the average height is only 1.5 meter. If the global warming isn’t stopped in time, then the water level of the oceans will increase more than the land’s surface.
The result will be that the first country of the world is extinct.
But it will not be the only country that will have severe problems for it’s people. Even countries in the mountains will experience problems; at first, the melting of the glaciers might cause floods, but later the absence of the glaciers will result in a shortage of drinking water for millions of people. I cold areas with permafrost, the soil and underground will be soft and the buildings in areas like Siberia will collapse.
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