President Anote Tong admits that many people think little about what will happen 20 years down the road and live only for the present. “ All we can do is make them understand that there is a problem, and if there is something we can do, we should do it.
1892 年，吉爾伯特島群與其南方之艾利斯島群（即今吐瓦魯）同時成為英國保護地，1916 年改為殖民地。