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September 14, 2007
World Briefing | South Pacific
Tuvalu: A Cry for Help
By REUTERS
The Pacific island state of Tuvalu begged the rest of the world to do more to combat global warming before it sank beneath the ocean. The group of atolls and reefs, home to some 10,000 people, is barely six feet above sea level on average, and one study predicted that, at the current rate, the ocean will swallow the country in 30 to 50 years. “We keep thinking that the time will never come,” Deputy Prime Minister Tavau Teii said. “The alternative is to turn ourselves into fish and live under water.”