Welcome to the Marshall Islands. It’s almost midnight, I’ve been out for a work event. Actually, the first work event since lockdown began last November. It was a lot of fun!

Anyway, back to the Marshall Islands, a nation living on the edge. The Marshall Islands is home to a mere 58,000 people, yet at least 30,000 Marshallese people live in the US. Apparently, a third of the population has left the Marshall Islands and moved to the US because of the pressures of climate change and rising sea levels.

The Marshall Islands is also home to an underwater fighter plane graveyard dating from World War Two. Also, the Marshall Islands was a site for US nuclear testing between 1946 and 1958, so regardless of whether you’re familiar with the Marshall Islands, you’ve probably already seen them at some point in a dystopian US military video.

Anyway, to gain a much better perspective of the Marshall Islands, I recommend you watch the Wendover Video about the Marshall Islands:

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