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Solomon Islands
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Solomon Island people

• The Solomon Islands have a population of about
  480,442 (July 2001 est.)
• Age structures
• 0-14 years 43.79 (male 107,229 female 103,162)
  
• 15-64 years 53.15 (male 129,315 female
  126,021)
• 65 years and over 3.06 (male 7,190 female
  7,525) (2001 est.)
• Ethnic groups
• Melanesian 93
• Polynesian 4
• Micronesian 1.5
• European 0.8
• Chinese 0.3
• other 0.4

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• Religions
• Anglican 34
• Roman Catholic 19
• Baptist 17
• United (Methodist/Presbyterian) 11
• Seventh-Day Adventist 10
• other Protestant 5
• indigenous beliefs 4
• English is the official language, Pidgin and 87
  other languages
• Life expectancy at birth
• total population 71.55 years
• male 69.12 years
• female 74.1 years (2001 est.)

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The Solomon Island have been and is going to be
severely effected by global warming. The Solomon
Islands have a number of little islands forming
the country. The countrys main islands are
formed by volcanoes. The volcanoes are rugged,
mountainous, and are covered with tropical
plants. These islands range from 140-190km
long and 30-50km wide. of above sea level, and
the highest point on the islands being Mount
Makarakomburu, 2,44m above sea level. Each island
has a central spine of mountains. Some mountains
are more than 1200m high. On one side of the
island the land drops sharply to the sea and
gently to a narrow coastal strip on the other.
http//www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1997/global.warming/ca
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"For such countries--the Maldives, the Solomon
Islands, Samoa, Fiji and others--even a small
rise in the worlds sea levels could mean not
just washed-out sea walls and eroded coastlines
but national catastrophe and even
extinction"(Filkins, 1997). Many of the Solomon
Islands are barely above sea level especially the
coral atolls and the raised coral reefs. If
global warming continues to melt the polar ice
caps, then the Solomon Islanders need to prepare
now for a possible disaster. If the predictions
of a rise anywhere from 6 inches to 3 feet by
2100 (International Panel on Climate Change)
comes true, there must be massive migrations unto
safer islands. Although the islands themselves
are not producing the dangerous emissions, they
are the ones who will pay the price for them. The
developed countries like the United States are
refusing to cut back the air pollution to the
levels asked for by the Pacific Islands.
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• Impacts of Global warming on the Solomon Islands
• The Solomon Islanders main source of income is
  from fish, timber, palm oil, cocoa, and
  copra(dried coconut meat). About 80 of the
  population subsists on fishing and traditional
  farming, living outside of the cash economy.
  Japan buys most of the fish and timber from the
  country. Our country has good shipping services
  but only has few roads
• With the water level rising, it could
• erodes beaches
• increases flooding
• increases the salinity of rivers,
• bays, and groundwater tables

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With the water levels increasing, this would
affect our fishing and farming, causing our
people to suffer. Our population might rapidly
decline due to global warming caused in other
International countries. We, as a group must
strongly oppose to the International countries
from causing more global warming, because as a
result we, the Pacific Islanders suffer. The
International countries such as the United States
of America, Australia, Japan and Englandetc are
producing greenhouse gases that affect us. The
temperature rising causing the sea level to rise.
The sea levels rising, and making our islands
under sea level, forcing our islanders to move.
And as I said before, our islands main source of
income is from fishing and farming, the sea level
rising will cause a considerable amount of income
would be lost. Us, the Solomon Islands people,
think that the people in International cities
should cut down the amount of greenhouse gases
that they produce.
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Bibliography Photos from http//www.commerce.go
v.sb/Tourism/Photos1.htm Information
from http//www.countryreports.org/solomon.htm ht
tp//darwin.bio.uci.edu/sustain/suscoasts/csevill
a.html
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