Thoughts About Islands

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April 24, 2012

Peter Neill

If you assume a satellite perspective, you look down upon the earth and view an ocean world in which float islands—be they atolls, nations, or continents. If you now descend and join those island communities, you will discover people whose lives are defined by different limits, different needs, different utilities. Islanders are by definition more reliant on things to hand: water locally drawn, food locally raised or harvested from the sea, local skills required to make and fix things for themselves. They are more or less connected to a mainland that may provide fuel, additional supplies, even law enforcement, doctors,…

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