HOW PEOPLE LIVE IN THE MALDIVES | Paradise That Will Disappear First | 4K Documentary

The Maldives is the lowest country on Earth. Around 80% of its land is less than one metre above the sea, and in 2009 its government held a cabinet meeting underwater to warn the world.

This documentary goes behind the luxury resorts to see how people really live in a paradise that may be the first nation to disappear: Malé, one of the most crowded cities on the planet; the 2004 tsunami; Hulhumalé, a new island raised from the seabed; a floating city; a plan to buy a new homeland abroad; dying coral; Thilafushi, the island made of rubbish; and the day the capital ran out of drinking water.

CHAPTERS
00:00 A cabinet meeting underwater
01:26 A nation of 1,190 islands
02:50 Malé: the most crowded paradise
04:16 The 2004 tsunami
05:38 Hulhumalé: the island they built
07:05 The floating city
08:31 Buying a new homeland
09:56 Islam, tuna and island life
11:24 The coral is dying
12:54 Thilafushi: the rubbish island
14:19 Two Maldives
15:43 Drinking the ocean
17:03 Will the Maldives disappear?
18:26 Paradise is not a postcard

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