Ocean Planet: How climate change will change the definition of country

As earth grows warmer and warmer, some say countries will disapear. The polynesian coutry Tuvalu is expected to be the first one to "disapear". However, acoording to the ONU Sea convention, a country's size is defined by both Land and Water. Therefore, Tuvalusians exile will only be temporal, as they can come back and reclaim their terroritory... or... could they?

The truth is, as water will soon change the landscape of the earth, the movie waterland doesn't fall short from perspective. However the UN does. The ambiguity of international and national treaties on the topic of sea legislation startles. This problem arises because of the definition "contineal shelf" (Article76 sea convention) and "coastal state". What would happen when there is no more "coastal state"? Wars will soon settle this problem by stablishing Global Positioning Limits.

Much before the Moon and Mars, and long after Oil and Gold, the sea would be our more inmediate home and source of energy.

Costa Rica is starting to look to the ocean, as some of it's great richeness are hidden within the Cocos submarine mountain ridge.