These are sites that deserve impassioned elegies-by now too shriveled-and-too-dry climates that have witnessed the rise and fall of great civilizations and peoples. The agonizing thought that many affected communities may one day lose their land is now not a scientific prediction projected into some indeterminate future. It is an existential struggle where, with the death of such lands, soon these paradises will either have their final resting under or be rendered uninhabitable.
Maldives
A very beautiful nation among the lowest in his grade, with more than 1200 islands, constitutes an Indian Ocean archipelago. Just a slight tide level up would drown this little island. It has gone further with the government considering purchasing lands in other countries to rehabilitate its population due to the likelihood of their land being underwater by 2100.
Venice, Italy
The Floating City, for centuries, is now withering towards extinction. The city sinks deeper into the reluctant mud upon which it was seated, engulfed by the Adriatic. The grand engineering feat such as the MOSE flood barriers has in all purpose failed, and the occurrence of Acqua Alta is increasing now, threatening to convert this beautiful jewel of history into a permanent museum beneath the sea.
Kiribati
Islands of Kiribati are in the Central Pacific with coral atolls entrapped in a rising ocean. High-tide floods homes, salinity in the freshwater is thereby killing agricultural production. So the leaders bought some land in Fiji, maybe as a part-backup plan.
Jakarta, Indonesia
Currently, Jakarta is of all cities the fastest sinking on earth. Parts of the city sink at an average of 25 centimeters annually. It has become so critical that the Indonesian government has declared it will soon move the country’s capital. By then, Jakarta will likely be drowned and recovered at the new location it just announced
Tuvalu
Very small Pacific island nation right in the center between Hawaii and Australia. It is very much low above the sea just like Maldives. Whenever high seasonal tides engulf the tantamount of said island with seawater through porous ground, waves do not break. Now, most of the scientists fear Tuvalu could dry down in decades.
Solomon Islands
This nation in the South Pacific has had different standpoints regarding climate change. At least five dots of land have sunk into oceanic depths completely uninhabited since mid-20th century. With accelerated coastal erosion, some populated ones are putting pressure on small communities to relocate: generations of entire campesinos are being forced to move up to the highlands.
Bangkok, Thailand
It is swampy in Bangkok, sinking while the gulf rises around it. There are only a few parts five feet up. If they don’t change the way they manage water and selling land, temples, and busy areas might be flooded by 2050.
The Marshall Islands
Land, for the Marshall Islanders, is anything that descends from the ocean, yet threats derive from it. Indeed, it is so slender that, standing anywhere on it, one can almost have a view from one ocean to the other across the highway. Seeing no more high ground to retreat to, extinction over the very borders of their homeland is the very prospect with which the islanders live; indeed, the ever-encroaching ocean washes over it.
The Nile Delta
Nile Delta-the breadbasket of Egypt. It is home to most of its population and crops. Global warming has caused the raised sea levels in the Mediterranean, whereby salt water infra-ways inland into its soil thereby killing crops and evicting farmers from their lands. Slowly, fertile lands are going down the glittering sea thus putting food security for millions into jeopardy.
