With only 44 years of independence, a nation is already on the verge of disappearing due to climate change. Although the effects of global warming have been evident in several countries, there are other nations that also suffer the consequences.
At the last COP27 climate summit that took place in Egypt, Simon Kofe, Tuvalu’s Minister of Justice, Communication and Foreign Relations, announced in a three-minute video that the effects of climate change were affecting the islands anticipating their disappearance.
Where is Tuvalu, the nation that is about to disappear under the waters due to climate change?
Given this, he announced that they could be forced to move to the metaverse and only exist there, that is the idea in a worst case scenario. In cyberspace, it is planned to create a replica of the islands and function as a sovereign state while its citizens physically inhabit other regions.
“Because the world has not acted, we must. Tuvalu might be the first country in the world to exist solely in the metaverse, but if global warming continues unchecked, it won’t be the last,” Kofe said.
Together with the global creative agency The Monkeys and Collider, an ongoing project will begin to map and record as much Tuvaluan island life as possible, as well as cultural practices, traditional songs, among others.
The metaverse is a set of 3D worlds that seeks to offer an immersive experience, for which the user must create an avatar and move as they would in the physical world, although they could also make further movements such as going between worlds.
Tuvalu plans to recreate its territory, culture and be sovereign.
The Conversation explained that scenarios have already been recreated and that it has been shown that it is possible to generate virtual interactive spaces. He also cited that there are already governments that have created digital analogues such as Estonia that allows the granting of a residence permit online, as well as virtual embassies.
Although he also stressed that there may be technological challenges such as bandwidth, computing power and the fact that some 12,000 users coexist simultaneously. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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