Global Warming

Experts warn that the state Tuvalu located in Pacific Ocean, because of global warming can go under water within the nearest 50 years.

Located at 9 islands of Pacific Ocean the state Tuvalu can repeat destiny of Atlantis, through the fault of the human. The area of islands makes only 26 square kilometers, and the part of this territory already became unsuitable for a life. The height of some parts of islands above sea level makes 1 centimeter and if water, because of global warming, will rise further, within 50 years Tuvalu will flood completely.
In Tuvalu there is no industry, army, it is insufficient number of machines, and the overall length of streets makes 8 km. The population occupied by agriculture and by fish catching. The scientists who were contend with problems of a climate, for a long time are worried through destiny of the island state, but now the problem of possible flooding of Tuvalu is especially sharply. The loss by the state of the ground is not as a result of military actions - case unprecedented.
“State cannot be virtual, - says Rayner Lagoni , the professor of marine law from the Hamburg university. - Without the ground it simply will stop to be state “. The question of a legal status of “new Atlantis” has put Lagoni and his students in the deadlock. One is clear: in the case of flooding Tuvalu’s inhabitants will become the persons who are not having citizenship.
Those, who leave [Tuvalu] already now, cannot be considered refugees. The number of those who leaving grows: inhabitants suffer from the floods, the tropical storms, and subsequently climatologists predict even more local disasters. The inhabitants of the main island of Funafuti primarily want to emigrate. Because of the progress of ocean the waves periodically reach to the local airport.
Most often inhabitants of Tuvalu leave into Australia and New Zealand, where they encounter the new problems: status “of the victim of global warming “there does not exist. The convention about status of refugees does not assume the rendering to them humanitarian assistance. Specialists say that the problem of Tuvalu revealed a number of the mistakes in the rights of man.
The majority of jurists consider that Tuvalu cannot demand the compensation for the harm for destruction of the environment: the guilty it is impossible to define. But the number of those, who consider such requirements legitimate, grows. As an example they give the act of the state of California against the significant automobile company.
Japanese photographer Endo Suichi works now at the gallery of the portraits of inhabitants of Tuvalu. He is intended to imprint every one and this not so is complicated: on the islands lives only 11 thousand people. Portraits should give to the problem of global warming human face. Photographer will present them at the meeting of leaders of “the Big eight ” in Japan in 2008 and he hopes that this will contribute to resolution of questions concerning the elimination of the reasons for global warming.