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Tuvalu plans for its own disappearance [can an island state remain a state if it is underwater?]
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- Title
- Tuvalu plans for its own disappearance
- Published
- Oct 12 2023
- Word count
- 403 words
An interesting legal and philosophical question.
And extremely important, regarding presence.
Of course.
I don't mean to trivialise what is a very real and important issue for a group of people by treating it as merely an intellectual curiosity.
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Tuvalu is the country that has a significant portion of its overall GDP from its domain name — the .tv domain, now synonymous with large streaming platforms.
If there’s any challenge to Tuvalu’s continued existence if sea levels rise significantly, I wonder whether certain companies will try to defend Tuvalu’s statehood, or if they’d simply argue to remove the association between the government and the Top Level Domain. Given Amazon’s track record, I don’t have high hopes for them “sticking up for the little guy.”