What to do when your islands are sinking? Make them float!

Maldives Floating Islands

The archipelago of the Maldives have come up with an innovative new approach to tackling climate change and rising sea waters, build an island that floats.

None of the 1,200 islands which make up the Maldives are higher than six-feet above sea level, which means that rising oceans are a serious concern, and if the current levels of growth are not curtailed, the entire archipelago could be wiped out.

So in an innovative new move, the government has approved the creation of mini-floating islands.

"The Maldives government is pulling out all the stops in the fight against climate change," said the tourism body in a statement.

"Not only has the entire country gone carbon neutral, educated all of their children in environmental science and furiously built retaining walls around every island, but the government is buying up land in nearby nations as a place to retreat to when the Maldives disappears."