The low-lying Maldive Islands face the problem of too much water. Melting ice far away is slowly inundating their homeland, posing an existential threat.

In contrast to the trend of global aridity, the low-lying Maldive Islands south of the Indian subcontinent face the problem of too much water. Warming oceans and melting ice from far away are slowly inundating their homeland, posing an existential threat. Who is responsible for this collateral damage of the Anthropocene? All of humanity or only part of it?