Tuvalu Islands And Culture To Get Submerged In Metaverse

Tuvalu became the first country to protect its history and culture by replicating the metaverse.
Minister Simon Kofe stated its urgent need for a ‘digital twin’ in response to rising sea levels.
Tuvalu’s idea of making such a metaverse can set an example.

Tuvalu Plans to Save

Tuvalu has decided to uplift itself from the adverse effects of climatic problems to dissolve into a virtual world of the metaverse. They will become the first nation to replicate the metaverse in order to save the past for future generations.

The small Polynesian island country of the Pacific Ocean is set to recreate its parallel version of reality as a ‘digiverse’ to tackle the rising sea levels. Tuvalu has announced replicating the islands and landmarks to conserve the history and civilization of the country.

At the COP27 summit held in Egypt, the Minister for justice, communication and foreign affairs, Simon Kofe, announced via a chilling digital address to leaders, debating the urgent need to adapt alternative solutions in the wake of rising sea levels to safeguard the nation’s fate.

He remarked at the event-

“Our land, our ocean, our culture are the most precious assets of our people and to keep them safe from harm, no matter what happens in the physical world, we will move them to the cloud.”

What Forced Them to do this?

According to the UN website, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) resulted in the creation of the Glasgow Climate Pact. It formed the “building blocks” of the Paris Agreement, which aims to restrict global average temperature increase. To reduce the total carbon emissions by 45% by the end of the next three decades.

Further, they stressed on completely moving away from fossil fuels. Also, the developing countries came to Glasgow to pledge for Climate Finance of $100 billion annually. 25% of all funds collected, its three-fourth will be utilized in green technologies to decrease greenhouse emissions.

In research, it was found that almost 20% of the world’s electricity will be consumed by the internet by the end of 2025. As per the statistics of 2021, Tuvalu has a total population of 11,925. Minister Simon Kofe discussed the global environmental concerns and plan of building a reality replicated metaverse of their islands, lands, culture, etc.

Kofe highlighted his points-

“The tragedy of this outcome cannot be overstated. Tuvalu could be the first country in the world to exist solely in cyberspace – but if global warming continues unchecked, it won’t be the last.”

Meta’s (previously Facebook) research teams are developing new technology of human-computer interaction, blockchain and crypto, AR/VR, etc, surrounding the vision of Mark Zukerberg for the future of the internet. As Ifi claims states, Microsoft has 158, the most metaverse patents filed in the space.

Corporate giants such as Meta, Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA and others are betting massively with billions of dollars on the metaverse. The Tuvalu’s concept of adapting the metaverse as a ‘digital twin’ will be a response to climate change.