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Desperate efforts to keep climate change from drowning entire nations.
The Maldives, a nation of roughly 1200 low-lying islands in the
Indian Ocean, could be underwater by the end of this century if
climate change causes ocean levels to rise. On the eve of the big
climate summit in Copenhagen, the country's president, Mohamed
Nasheed, is warning of a massive exodus from the Maldives if
drastic global action is not taken. NOW talks with President
Nasheed about the climate crisis and why he compares it to
genocide.