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To: James Seagrove who wrote (1045127)	12/28/2017 10:06:46 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578031

How about this for real global warming? “Rising sea levels have Pacific island nations thinking about alternative ways to house their people, and there’s a global movement that says it has an answer. The movement is called ‘sea steading’, a man-made floating community that sets its own laws and is self-sustaining, and the first one could be built on our Pacific doorstep in French Polynesia. It’s a way of coping with rising sea levels, an issue for Pacific islands like Kiribati, and one the Prime Minister referenced recently when she said New Zealand may have to take climate refugees. It all sounds a bit like Kevin Costner’s Waterworld, but the sea-steading community has a more optimistic vision. Founded in Silicon Valley, one of its early funders was billionaire – and New Zealand citizen – Peter Thiel. In 2017, the Sea Steading Institute signed a memorandum of understanding with the French Polynesian government to build the first floating community.” newshub.co.nz

To: James Seagrove who wrote (1045127)	12/28/2017 10:48:02 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1578031

Born in the remote community of Riondel, British Columbia, in a log cabin built by his parents, Brinkman is the eldest of three children of Joyce Murray, a Member of the Parliament of Canada, and Dirk Brinkman, Sr., who is notable for having founded the world’s only private company responsible for planting more than one billion trees… Brinkman spent his early summers in remote tree planting camps, and began planting trees himself at the age of 15. He worked for his parents’ business, Brinkman & Associates Reforestation, for twelve seasons in British Columbia and Alberta, personally planting more than one million trees. During this period he also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Simon Fraser University and a Master of Arts degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Victoria, Canada. He studied human evolution and primatology with the orangutan researcher Biruté Galdikas and wrote his thesis comparing modern Hip hop freestyle battling with The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Brinkman is married to cognitive neuroscientist and television host Dr. Heather Berlin.