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Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island by Earl Swift
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4.5
this was a really really tough read that deserves more attention. As a VA resident, I’m surprised none of my environmental classes in college talked about Tangier or recommended this book. People love to act like the US is miraculously being exempt from the effects of climate change while other countries suffer, but in reality Tangier is just one of many examples that the climate crisis has been here for a while now. It’s hard for me to swallow the political and moral views of Tangier residents, but it was interesting to see how their history and conservative Christian faith shaped their extreme individualism and what sometimes feels like learned helplessness.
It being 7 years since this was published, I looked up their current situation and the funding for the study they mentioned in this book has only just now been approved in January 2023. In almost 10 years, the federal government has done little to nothing to provide aid to these people, setting a disgraceful precedent for future communities at risk. There is a dire need for government reform if we are to see successful climate mitigation for Tangier and the country as a whole.
It being 7 years since this was published, I looked up their current situation and the funding for the study they mentioned in this book has only just now been approved in January 2023. In almost 10 years, the federal government has done little to nothing to provide aid to these people, setting a disgraceful precedent for future communities at risk. There is a dire need for government reform if we are to see successful climate mitigation for Tangier and the country as a whole.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Homophobia