The islands that formed Kiribati had a combined population of 112,000 people. Among them, the highest elevation was just six feet. The ambassador was skeptical his country would survive. “We are falling into the sea,” he said. His government was encouraging citizens to consider moving elsewhere under a plan it called “migration with dignity.” It had even gone so far as to purchase land 1,200 miles away in Fiji, where Kiribati residents could relocate when their country became unlivable. The only plot the Kiribati government could afford, however, was forested and swampy, and unlikely to
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