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It's so beautiful that she could do this and I had so much admiration for her. I might have been able to do what she did before Angel (I did a lot of solo travelling then) but not after...after having kids I believe your fears grow even more because you are afraid for them or for them if you loose your life...which could happen if you went sailing off alone around the world.
This woman is EXTREMELY brave and totally AMAZING! I admire her freedom, bravery and strength!
Published on Jun 19, 2015
Solo
sailor Liz Clark calls her boat, Swell, the chariot of her dreams. It's
been her home for the last 10 years, giving her a ticket to freedom and
a means of exploring the remote waves of the South Pacific. Recently,
she set sail for the Tuamotus to join Kimi Werner and Léa Brassy for 10
days of surfing and diving amidst some of the world's most beautiful
atolls. Explore more: http://www.patagonia.com/us/surfing
I am so sorry I can not do more, but I am sharing your story and saying prayers for you. My friends in Mexico, at certain times of year the whole beach washes away...and they replace it and rebuild. It happened this year. And that is a bad and I feel very bad for them...and they have no place to go as it is there home....but to be an island...where can't you get sand from...land from...? what CAN you do?
I live at the ocean, how high will the water come...what does the future hold? What if there's more eco disasters with pipelines and spills, earthquakes from LNG...oh, I don't want to go there.
I want to be positive, but you, you are stuck between a rock and a hard place. I pray for you. I pray and meditate for positive things to happen to all of us on this earth. We need lighthouses of peace.
Please Share the Marshall Islands story. It's life and death...
Maybe this is why some in the US don't want any refugees, they have the Marshall Islanders to look after. But so many people are NOT aware so I doubt it's that!
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"But for all his diplomatic acumen, Mr. deBrum’s advocacy for a small
island nation being swallowed by a vast ocean does not always rise above
the roar of the surf. At a recent conference convened to draft the
Paris accord, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar of India listened
to his pleas, then responded brusquely, “So what?”"
"But the Marshall Islands holds an important card: Under a 1986 compact,
the roughly 70,000 residents of the Marshalls, because of their long
military ties to Washington, are free to emigrate to the United States, a
pass that will become more enticing as the water rises on the islands’
shores."
"Most of the 1,000 or so Marshall Islands, spread out over 29 narrow
coral atolls in the South Pacific, are less than six feet above sea
level — and few are more than a mile wide. For the Marshallese, the
destructive power of the rising seas is already an inescapable part of
daily life. Changing global trade winds have raised sea levels in the
South Pacific about a foot over the past 30 years, faster than
elsewhere. Scientists are studying whether those changing trade winds
have anything to do with climate change."
"In neighborhoods like Mr. Anej’s, after the sewage-filled tides wash
into homes, fever and dysentery soon follow. On other islands, the wash
of saltwater has penetrated and salinated underground freshwater supply.
On Majuro, flooding tides damaged hundreds of homes in 2013. The
elementary school closed for nearly two weeks to shelter families. That
same year, the airport temporarily closed after tides flooded the
runway."
"During the Cold War, the
United States military detonated 67 nuclear bombs on or close to the
nearby Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll — after first relocating the
Bikini Islanders to different locations around the Marshalls."
"At age 9, Mr. deBrum was fishing with his
grandfather when he saw the flash of one of the tests on the horizon.
“Within seconds, the entire sky had turned red, like a fishbowl had been
put over my head, and blood poured over it,” he recalled."
"The deal offered: an open door to the
Marshallese and Bikini Islanders. That bargain has already fostered
communities of thousands of Marshall Islanders in Springdale, Ark., and
Salem, Ore., fleeing a deluged future. "
