THE GREEN WAVE

SEARCHING FOR BALANCE IN SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

Words by Manu Bouvet

As our trip to São Tomé and Principe approaches, newspaper headlines proclaim,“Trump is turning his back on the planet,” and the US decides to officially withdraw from the Paris Accords, a landmark global warming agreement. The timing couldn’t have felt more ironic, following swaths of devastation across the US and Puerto Rico by hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria. In my heart, I could feel Mother Earth’s despair as political leaders around the world ignored climate change and dismissed the impact of man.“One has to be arrogant like men to think we have changed the climate,” said former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, spurning any thought of cause and effect in favor of coincidence. Though such a slap in the face of the environmental cause stuns me, excitement and good moods reign…

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Kayak Session (Digital) - 1 Issue, SUP World Magazine 2018

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