Resumen de New islands built to fight rising seas
Maldives is facing a rise in sea levels--a peril that made it a poster child for the consequences of climate change. The new government, under Pres Abdulla Yameen, determined to resist the rising seas with engineering. The key to the new strategy is renting out islands and using the money to build new ones, through the process of land reclamation. People living on smaller, lower-lying islands could then be relocated to more flood resistant ones when needed. To build it, a state-owned firm is pumping sand from surrounding atolls and depositing it on shallow reefs that circle the original lagoon. It is being fortified with walls 3 meters above sea level. Here, Dauenhauer discusses the problems of reclaiming islands.
