It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s a massive floating plastic island of sustainability! It has been a while since I have graced this blog with my presence- my apologies, hopefully I can make it up to you (or at least to my boss). A while ago I wrote about my Enviro class that did a mock Conference of Parties on Climate Change and mentioned that my group represented the Maldives, a small island nation that is well… doomed, in short. The inhabitants are already experiencing frequent flooding in most areas, the reserves of fresh water are dwindling and severe climatic events, etc. The result will be a population of climate refugees that will seek somewhere to go in the near future (the island is expected to be the first nation made uninhabitable by climate change because on average the elevation is only 1.5m above sea level). Our group came up with multiple solutions but my personal favourite was built off the idea that they could buy new real estate in another country and mo...