How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea

merbs writes: Anote Tong, the president of low-lying Kiribati, has spent nearly a decade trying to save his people from rising sea levels. There's a good chance he will not succeed. This is how he leads a nation that will likely not exist in 100 years. Motherboard reports: "Kiribati’s fate provides a rare glimpse of the future world under climate change. The tiny island nation is the canary in our global coal mine, and it will bear the brunt of climate change more intensely and much sooner than nearly anywhere else. 'We cannot keep doing what we are doing,' Tong said. 'Because we may be on the front line today, but other countries, other societies, other communities will be next.'"

Comments

Declare War on the Sea!

[wisnoskij]

I guess Caligula had it right, he was just 2000 years ahead of his time.

heartfelt

[PopeRatzo]

My thoughts and prayers go out to the Kiribati, because that's all they're gonna get and I ain't fucking giving up my giant SUV. No way.

Re:heartfelt

[PopeRatzo]

People need to wake up to the fact that atmospheric CO2 levels have no effect whatsoever on the temperature and that in fact the reverse is true.

Can someone please translate this sentence into English for me? What is the "reverse" of "no effect whatsoever"?