What Happen to the land Maldives

      There are some pearls scatters on the earth, and we usually called them Maldives. Maldives is a place located in the southern Indian Ocean. This country has the tropical monsoon climate, and this environment makes the island has the variety of different creatures. For example, marine ecosystem has 1100 species of fish, 5 species of sea turtles, 21 species of whales and dolphins, 187 species of corals, 400 species of mollusks, and 83 species of echinoderms, and 120 copepods, 15 amphipods as well as over 145 crab and 48 shrimp species as well. This amazing scenery attracts people around the world come to visit every year. However, do you know that this adorable island will disappear after 7 years?

    Maldives’s president Mohamed Nasheed in 2012 stated that "If carbon emissions were to stop today, the planet would not see a difference for 60 to 70 years." "If carbon emissions continue at the rate they are climbing today, my country will be underwater in seven years." It means that Maldives will probably become the next Atlantis which submerged under the ocean. There are two main reasons that cause the environment issue. First is the global warming problem, as we know that after the industry revolution, the carbon emissions gradually increase, so the world’s climate changed. Therefore, the temperature increase results in the South Pole and Greenland’s glacier melt, and the sea level rose. The second reason is many tourists visit Maldives every year, the more they care about the tourism industry, the more hurt the original ecology. That is why the marine wide creatures sharply decrease in the recent year.  

    Due to climate change in the recent year, Maldives have ranked the third most endangered nation due to flooding. Maldives is a place that I eager to visit one day, because of this reason; I want to find some solutions to protect this beautiful land. For example, we can use public transportation instead car or motorcycle, and also control the time to use air condition, these are the way to reduce carbon emission. In order to protect Maldives’s ecosystem, we should treat the environment kindly. If we keep doing it, we are not only just protecting Maldives but also protecting our earth!

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