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Posted on 07/25/2025 7:25:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Residents of Tuvalu, one of the world’s lowest-lying island nations, are preparing for a historic migration as the impacts of climate change push the country closer to becoming uninhabitable.
Thousands of Tuvaluans have applied for a new visa program that allows them to relocate to Australia in response to rising sea levels threatening their homeland.
The Pacific Engagement Visa, part of a treaty between Australia and Tuvalu, is the world’s first climate migration agreement. It offers Tuvaluan citizens the opportunity to permanently move to Australia to escape the imminent threat of flooding back home. Only 280 people will be accepted into the program each year, but more than 5,000 residents (nearly half the country's total population) have applied for the first round, which will be determined by random lottery system from now through January of 2026.
The urgency of the response underscores the severity of Tuvalu’s situation. Located in the South Pacific between Australia and Hawaii, Tuvalu consists of nine coral atolls with an average elevation of just six feet above sea level.
Some parts of the islands are only a few dozen feet wide. Even the country’s highest point is only 15 feet above sea level, nowhere near enough protection against the accelerating threat of sea level rise.
(MORE: Island Sells Citizenship To Help Fund Climate Resilience)
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Australia will thin out the herd.
In the heart of the Pacific Ocean, Tuvalu faces a growing crisis: the scarcity of fresh water. This small island nation, already grappling with the devastating effects of climate change, now contends with a dwindling supply of potable water that endangers public health, food security, and the overall well-being of its people.There is no aquifer in these islets.
And then this:
The soils of Tuvalu's islands are usually shallow, porous, alkaline, coarse-textured, with carbonate mineralogy and high pH values of up to 8.2 to 8.9.[5] The soils are usually deficient in most of the important nutrients needed for plant growth (e.g., nitrogen, potassium and micronutrients such as iron, manganese, copper and zinc), so garden beds need to be enhanced with mulch and fertiliser to increase their fertility.[5] The Tuvalu islands have a total land area of only about 26 km2, less than 10 sq mi (30 km2).
Willfully.
The climate changes and sea levels rise and fall. The Earth has been a’changing for a long time and will continue to do so. We have to deal with it.
Quick, find king Canute.
Seems like a good real estate buying opportunity.
Not atoll.
Water level is not rising. Perhaps the island is sinking.
I read an article 20 years ago that talked about this. They’re mining sand and gravel from the beaches, and lo and behold, it looks like the sea is advancing on the sinking island! First, if Tuvalu were sinking, all nearby islands would also be equally sinking, because they’re all in the same ocean. Second, it’s wrong to attribute to climate change, or to sea level rise, what is actually being caused by mining activities. But of course this won’t stop the activists and the alarmists from doing exactly this.
(All this was in the article.)
It would appear that inhabiting this awful island complex was a serious miscalculation. Now the aborigines have an excuse,
acceptable to the Australian government, to flee to a land of welfare and stable habitation, free from the frequent storm
surges, typhoons, and small tsunamis.
It’s called “erosion.”
Fortunately, as Hawaii’s islands erode back into the sea (hardly climate change), new ones pop up. Aloha!
Highest point in the country is only 15 ft above sea level.
Islands shall become mountains and mountains shall become islands.
Holy Bible
The Tuvalaly Hip!
in 1950 there were 4700 people on the island to use available resources now there is 11,700 stop screwing around and blaming others for the lack of water or go the way of easter islanders. natural selection
Surfs up!
Australia’s welfare system is what they want
Sea level rise is not really a thing. Why are all these oligarch-types buying sea-front property? If sea-level rise was really a concern, they wouldn’t be doing that.
On the other hand, a tsunami could easily wipe out the whole place in one fell swoop.
I hear Bikini Atoll is fairly unpopulated and has plenty of room . 🤔
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