These days, the sinking island in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay will take any help it can get. The federal budget includes a $25 million proposal from Virginia's senators to help Tangier Island in its losing battle against sea-level rise and erosion.
he had lived on the island his whole life and the sea level didn’t look any different to him: “If sea level rise is occurring, why am I not seeing signs of it?”Gore said a big challenge for scientists was being able to translate the threats of climate change in an understandable way so that people “can see the consequences in their own lives.
“So you have to be deciding what you want to save and what you want to let go of,” Eskridge recalled being told. “We’re such a small island, we really can’t let any area go. I mean over here you have the businesses and the harbor, and here you have the homes.”Eskridge said recent research estimating how much money it would take to fully protect the island has had some residents feeling nervous and discouraged.
The woman, Linda Clary — “I am lovingly called a Come Here; I came on a sailboat and never left” — noted that the island just celebrated the 98th birthday of the town’s oldest veteran, and shouldn’t its decades of military service to the country count for something? Kaine offered a note of optimism about the money for Tangier in the proposed budget: “$25 million can do a lot of good. I don’t think we’re going to be done. … Let’s get this started with a big number, not a small number."“We get the job started, and it’s more reason to keep going — protect that first investment,” agreed town councilman Tommy Eskridge, sitting in the front in a Trump hat and Trump T-shirt.
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