2.4 – Focus on Kiribati: An island nation soon to be submerged

So as I have been looking through documents, I found myself finding it hard without being more specific about what I was looking for. A single nation was needed as a focus, and so I thought Kiribati would be a good one, as it has a reasonable population (100 000 people) and has already developed ideas on how to mitigate the climate refugees.

According to this article, they have purchase land on one of their neighbour’s bigger islands and are planning on migrating their entire population there over time.

This article, found on RYOT, states that Kiribati has a government plan to “migrate with dignity” the entire population to neighbouring islands. In any case, the Kiribati culture is sure to be subjected to competing with local cultures, or be thinned out and require new forms of establishing cultural identity. Could social media play a role here?

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