NukeTalk
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Ploughshares
Climate Change isn't a Distant Threat for the Marshall Islands
29 minutes Posted Apr 24, 2023 at 5:42 pm.
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This week, the microphone is passed to Selina Leem, climate change activist and Marshall Islands native.

 

From 1946-1958, the US detonated 67 atomic bombs on the Marshall Islands, resulting in disastrous health, environmental, and cultural consequences that the Marshallese people are still burdened with today. Leem shares her first-hand experience of growing up with the consequences of this nuclear legacy and climate change, and how this has all shaped her activism.