Geography sea level rise the Maldives
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- Created on: 02-11-14 11:39
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- Geography case study:sea level rise- The Maldives
- The Maldives are 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean
- Global warming
- Burning fossil fuels adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere
- A layer is created in the atmosphere reflecting radiation back to earth
- Extra heat is melting the polar ice caps adding more volume of water to oceans
- Economic effects
- Lose tourism
- Lose fishing
- Cost to build sea defences
- Land will be lost
- $63 million loaned from Japan
- Social effects
- Houses and possessions lost to flooding
- People have to move away from friends and family
- People forced to leave homes
- Traditional way of life lost
- Political effects
- People will become environmental refugees
- 400,000 people will have to be moved
- Hard to find places for these people to go
- 400,000 people will have to be moved
- Country is in debt
- Took out loans from Japan to build a sea wall around Male
- People will become environmental refugees
- Environmental effects
- Coral reef needs a specific depth of water
- If the water becomes deeper they will die
- Creatures around the reefs will die
- Ecosystem associated with the reef lost
- The country will disappear under water
- Coral reef needs a specific depth of water
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