Li....see the big island....the one now covered in building....most of that has been built up
have a look at the reefs missing from the 2nd pic li....
Change in sea levels from 1993 to 2022 (AFP / Jean-Michel CORNU, Simon MALFATTO)BRESCHI)IPCC lead author Duvat demonstrated with co-authors in a 2019 study (archived here) that over the course of a decade, island change in the Maldives was rapid and "primarily controlled by anthropogenic drivers," or the influence of human activity on nature.
"The great majority of inhabited and exploited islands now exhibit an altered-to-annihilated capacity to respond to ocean-climate pressures," she said.
"This means that an anthropogenic tipping point has been reached on many islands that have lost the capacity to naturally adjust to rising sea levels through vertical accretion," a phenomenon in which sediments build up and naturally raise land (archived here).
AFP has debunked other claims about sea levels, here and here.
