Maldives cabinet meets underwater to draw attention

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With a view to draw the attention of the world, towards confirmed fears of the country drowning in the Indian Ocean by 2050 due to climate change, the President and the Cabinet of Maldives met underwater to discuss state matters.

CJ: Chitranjan Sawant

Sat, Oct 10, 2009 17:23:14 IST

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Maldives News :

THE PRESIDENT and the entire cabinet, a team of ministers of the Island nation of Maldives drove out of the capital, Male to the sea beach. There they dived deep into the ocean and met at least 20 ft under water to conduct the business of the state.

What was the necessity of this exercise, one may ask. Well, the politicians and government officials wished to draw the attention of the world to the fact that their country was about to disappear. Why? Because of global warming.

The ecologists of international repute have reported that if the glaciers around Greenland and the ice sheet at the North Pole keep on melting at the present rate, by 2050 countries like Maldives and metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Chennai and even London may disappear from face of the earth in parts or completely. Naturally the citizens of Maldives are very worried.

Now, advanced countries like USA, some European countries and an Asian country, China are responsible in ample measure for global warming and climate change. Notwithstanding numerous conferences where a lot of debating takes place, little action is being taken in the right direction.

It is time the ecologists and volunteers of the Greenpeace become more active and save the low lying areas of our planet Earth.

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