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Earth Germany The Pacific – Flight from Paradise Leo Falcam, the
former president of Micronesia, made the issue very clear when
he said: "Climate change is the biggest security threat we
face". He was speaking in the year 2000 as a representative of
around seven million people who live in the small island states
in the Pacific Ocean. Falcam wondered how much longer human life
could be sustained on Tonga, Fiji or Samoa. The inhabitants of
the Pacific Islands are not responsible for global warming –
they account for only 0.06 per cent of global greenhouse gas
emissions. But they are the first victims because most of the
islands are small, flat and extremely vulnerable. Experts assume
that sea levels wi