September 10, 2020
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The idea of moving an entire population en masse is just one of several radical measures under consideration by the island populations most threatened by rising seas. The world’s only atoll nations—in the Pacific, Kiribati, Tuvalu, and the Marshall Islands; in the Indian Ocean, the Maldives—have built entire societies on the coral-and-sand rims of sunken volcanoes... They share distinctive shapes: rings of habitable land encircling lagoons, themselves encircled by the ocean. And these unique shapes come with unique problems.
