Will the lights go out?

The Marshall islands are feeling the pinch from rising fuel and food prices. Things have reached extreme crisis levels:

The Marshall Islands said Friday electrical power in the small Pacific nation may be switched off in September when its fuel supplies are expected to run out, as high food and energy prices have begun to hit hard some developing countries, particularly small islands isolated from the rest of the world.

The future of many small nations, especially the ones in the Pacific that are dependent on shipping to provide fuel and food, is becoming more cloudy. Perhaps the only bright spot is that things might get so untenable on the smaller islands that they are evacuated before global sea level rise starts to flood them.