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Fighting the tide

uvalu’s foreign minister, Simon Kofe, made international headlines when he announced at COP27 that his island nation was creating a complete replica of itself in the metaverse. He stood in front of a virtual backdrop of Teafualiku Islet, the smallest island in the

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