Sunday, August 23, 2009

Tuvalu

Did you try last week's question? It was answered on Thursday the 20Th as Roz crossed the International Date Line, or anitmeridian at a little before 4 in the afternoon Hawaii time while still a few days away from crossing the Equator. Go Roz. And now it is on to Tuvalu. Roz keeps saying that Tuvalu is an important symbol of climate change. Can you find out why? Do some research on line and post your answers in the comments section. What's so special about Tuvalu?








A photo of Tuvalu from the Wikipedia commons.
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3 comments:

  1. Alofa TuvaluAugust 24, 2009 at 12:09 AM

    Tuvalu symbol of what awaits us all if we do nothing is Alofa Tuvalu's moto. Because we are all Tuvaluans, the french and tuvaluan NGO nourishes the ambition to contribute to an active global movement through a set of concrete and reproducible actions on the archipelago. Their reproduction will give us as many tools to preserve our environment, and hopes of a solution for all of us. The plan called "Small is Beautiful" and started late 2004, is one of the UN Decade in Education for Sustainable Development. The primary objective: Assist the Tuvaluans to survive as a nation. The mean is a media campaign based on a positive, unifying and concrete program : assisting Tuvalu to become an environmental showcase - a living, breathing, replicable model of an environmentally respectful and exemplary nation – is a compelling means for Tuvalu to leave both a vital message and an important legacy to the world.
    To know more : www.alofatuvalu.tv
    We hope you'll be given to meet with some of our tuvaluan members and wish you a safe trip to the archipelago.

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  2. Alofa TuvaluAugust 24, 2009 at 1:32 AM

    We assumed everybody knew about that, but in case here is an additionnal comments to answer your question about why Tuvalu is an important symbol of climate change :
    "Tuvalu is an independent constitutional nation in the southwest Pacific Ocean, located approximately 1000 km north of Fiji and with a total land mass of only 26 km2. It is composed of 9 low-lying coral islands and numerous islets. Average elevation : 3 m. The total population is about 11,000. Named the only nation in the world above reproach for human rights violations by a panel of observers in June 1998, Tuvalu is also the earth's first sovereign nation faced with becoming totally uninhabitable due to global-warming related flooding within the next 50 years. Its 11,000 citizens are thus threatened with becoming the planet’s first entire nation of environmental refugees."
    Source : www.alofatuvalu.tv

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  3. Roz Savage EducationAugust 28, 2009 at 9:19 PM

    Thanks for the information about this important issue. The entire world should be watching what we are doing that effects to this island nation.

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