More than half of the 43 members of the Association of Small Island States believe that the decision to do nothing, to let ocean waters rise, can be considered tantamount to approval of murder. The smallest among them, Tuvalu, with 11,000 inhabitants, is already searching for a place to evacuate its citizens when their island is submerged.
而在小型岛国联合体的 43 个成员国中，有超过一半相信上述决议根本毫无作用，坐视海平面上升，实际就上就是赞成谋杀。其中最小的国家图瓦卢已经在为自己的 1.1 万名居民寻找一个当全国被浸没时的疏散点。而孟加拉国则有一半的区域以及 1 亿居民遭受着洪水的威胁，拥有 1600 万人口的荷兰有 1/4 国土也面临着同样的命运。