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Date: October 05, 2020 06:37AM
Kiribati and Vanuatu are two nations most at risk from climate change. Specks of land in the middle of the ocean; might as well build a temple on Gilligan's Island (which, TBH, I'd actually like to see).
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Op-ed by a previous president of Kiribati, warning that the nation could be underwater by 2100:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/10/24/kiribati/---
"…Cyclone Pam. The category 5 storm ripped through [Vanuatu] in 2015, killing 24, displacing more than 75,000 people and wiping out two thirds of the country’s GDP overnight."
https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/vanuatu/articles/how-the-south-pacific-island-nation-vanuatu-is-affected-by-climate-change/That cyclone also destroyed 96% of Vanuatu's food crops.
https://www.un.int/vanuatu/vanuatu/climate-changeNot a good long-term bet for temple construction. Maybe they think the temples will serve as good-luck charms to wish away cyclones and rising sea levels.