Kiribati, an island between Hawaii and Australia, is the second island-nation after the Maldives that has floated the idea of buying land should their islands be swamped by rising seas and more powerful storms.
The sea level around Kiribati has been rising 5.1 millimetres a year since 1991, Australia's National Tidal Centre reported.
The immediate consequence effects - Higher tides in Kiribati's 33-island archipelago are making potable water for its 100,000 residents too salty to drink.
Now switch that thought to Singapore, an island nation too. We have created reservoirs from the sea. Most recently, the Marina reservoir. Could these reservoirs be one day claimed back by salty seawater? Do we have a contingency plan for rising sea level? Build dykes around Singapore? Maybe.
Or perhaps offer a price to Johor Sultan / Malaysia to buy over Johor state as insurance against rising tide? Or should we build a Noah's Ark instead?
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