全球首個沉沒國家圖瓦盧50年後或沉海

Tuvalu is one of the places on earth that is most vulnerable to the affects of global warming. The threat of sea level rise may bring complete disaster to the 10,000 Tuvaluans residing on nine extremely low-lying coral atolls.

圖瓦盧是全球受到氣候變暖影響最爲嚴重的地方之一。海平面持續升高的威脅可能會給住在該國九個海拔極低的珊瑚島上的一萬多居民帶來滅頂之災。

A Tuvalu child protests the use of appliances and other products which bring about green house effect.

圖爲一名圖瓦盧兒童舉着標語抗議導致溫室效應的電器及其他產品的使用。

We live in constant fear of the adverse impacts of climate change. For a coral atoll nation, sea level rise and more severe weather events loom as a growing threat to our entire population. The threat is real and serious, and is of no difference to a slow and insidious form of terrorism against us."

-Saufatu Sopoanga, Prime Minister of Tuvalu, at the United Nations General Assembly New York,

聲音：“我們生活在氣候變暖的負面影響所帶來的持久的恐懼之中。對於一個由珊瑚島組成的國家來說，海平面上升和更嚴重的氣候現象赫然聳現，威脅着我國的所有居民。這是一個真實而嚴重的威脅，簡直就是針對我們的慢性、狡詐的恐怖主義行動。”

- Saufatu Sopoanga，圖瓦盧總理在紐約聯合國全體代表大會上