Before the Flood: Tuvalu Storyville : Season 10 Episode 4
BBC Two 45m int(0)
Aired: February 21st, 2006 @ 10:00 PM EST on BBC Two
Now that global warming is officially acknowledged, the world's eyes are on which country will be the first to sink beneath the waves. A candidate is Tuvalu, an island in the midst of the Pacific and home to 11,000 inhabitants. This tiny island sold its internet domain name, .tv, to a Californian company for $50 million, but now global warming is causing the island to sink. How are they spending the windfall?