predicted its residents could become some of America’s first climate refugees. According to the paper’s authors, the island may have to be abandoned within 25 years because of sea level rise associated with climate change.Amanda Andrade-Rhoades
“I don’t believe it’s got anything to do with the changing climate,” Landon says of the tides she fears will one day engulf her street.Amanda Andrade-RhoadesJames Eskridge, Tangier Island’s mayor for the past 14 years, never tires of telling the story. After all, getting a phone call from Donald Trump was one of the highlights of his life. In June 2017, a CNN crew visited the island and asked Eskridge if he had a message for Trump.
Eskridge, known universally on the island by his childhood nickname of Ooker, has a Jesus fish tattoo on one arm and a star of David on the other. Over the years he has named his pet cats after an array of famous conservative figures including right-wing pundit Ann Coulter and Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito.Hawkins is comingAs a waitress brings out servings of soft shell crab sandwiches and fries smothered in crab dip, Eskridge reflects on what makes Tangier such an unusual place.
“This time of year, people say ‘Hawkins is coming’,” Eskridge says. To prove his point he yells out to a diner at a nearby table: “You know who Hawkins is, don’t you?” Along the way Eskridge inspects his crab pots to see what has arrived overnight. He’s a man in his element, doing what he believes God put him on earth to do. Explaining why he never wants to live anywhere else, he says: “It’s the freedom we have here. Crabbing, working the water, you are your own boss, you make your own hours.”
“You can build a ring of stone around the edge of the island, but the problem is that sea levels are going to continue to rise and convert the high ground the town is sitting on into swamp and marsh,” he says. “And you really can’t live in marsh.”, Schulte found alarming declines in the height of Tangier’s three upland ridges. He says it’s an important contribution to the debate over sea level rise and erosion. “These ridges are not on the coast, so are not subject to coastal erosion.
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