When Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited Kiribati in 2011, he had “an unexpected insight” into the fear that stalks the Pacific Island nation.
Along with toiletries, the hotel room “had an additional item that is not your typical amenity: a life jacket,” he said.
The room was equipped with a personal flotation device, obviously for dramatic effect – just in case the island, along with the hotel, sank into the ocean while the secretary-general was still a guest.
Ban said he joined the country’s president, Anote Tong, to plant mangroves as a guard against rising tides that are poisoning wells and threatening to swamp the island nation of over 100,000 people.
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