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Nature 434, 435 (24 March 2005) | doi:10.1038/434435a; Published online 23 March 2005

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Immigration could ease climate-change impact

Sujatha Byravan1 & Sudhir Chella Rajan2

  1. Council for Responsible Genetics, 5 Upland Road, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140, USA
  2. Tellus Institute, 11 Arlington Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116, USA

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A modest proposal to allow the big gas-emitters to take their share of responsibility.

The recent UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan, was dominated by discussion of the Indian Ocean tsunami ("Solo efforts hamper tsunami warning system" Nature 433 343; 2005). However, we must not forget the extreme vulnerability of small islands and low-lying coastal areas to sea-level rise caused by climate change.

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