A sea of troubles
From childhood for some reason part of Hamlet’s soliloquy has caught in my mind. “Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?”. For many of our Pacific Nations the sea is in fact a sea of troubles with the possibility of some being extensively flooded and some disappearing as global warming increases. Already thy have suffered the devastation of typhoons and underground eruptions. In Australia we are concerned we might lose power now and then but as billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has pointed out “At some point we have to admit we have made this problem ourselves.” He was the one who provided funding for candidates in the recent election who supported policies to promote climate action and most of the independents who were successful were in that group. As its majority shareholder he also scuttled the plans of AGL to divide the company assets in a way that would pre