You’re reading The Husk's Friday Saturday edition, our Weekender, a countdown/roundup of miscellanea from Micronesia, Guam, and Earth.

climate change stories

• FSM recently announced a goal to have 70% renewable energy capacity by the year 2030, per the Pacific Island Times.

• The worldwide goal of limiting global temperature from warming beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial levels is more than likely not going to happen. Even with the best intentions and current goals. A new study from the UK Met Office projects temps will go above 1.5 C but then come back down sometime around the year 2100.

• Fiji has done a grim, but proactive, thing and developed a plan for migration when climate change effects sink their land, communities, homes, according to an article from The Guardian.

  • The article states, in part,

    What Fiji is attempting to do is unprecedented. For years, politicians and scientists have been talking about the prospect of climate migration. In Fiji, and in much of the Pacific, this migration has already begun. Here, the question is no longer if communities will be forced to move, but how exactly to do it. At present, 42 Fijian villages have been earmarked for potential relocation in the next five to 10 years, owing to the impacts of climate crisis. Six have already been moved. Every new cyclone or disaster brings with it the risk of yet more villages being added to the list.

stories from Micronesia

• In Compact of Free Association news, the Pacific Island Times reports, the U.S. asked not to micromanage FSM.

• Over the next five to 10 years, the U.S. Navy is planning to expand its submarine presence out of Guam, per USNI News.

  • The article quotes Rear Adm. Jeffrey Jablon, the commander of Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, as saying:

    “And that specifically refers to the [People’s Republic of China]. You know, we’ve heard we’re at an inflection point. It’s a critical decade. It’s a decisive decade. And it’s true. That is my number one concern as the Pacific Fleet force commander for the submarine force. We are in the decade of maximum danger.”¹

blast from the past

I was scrolling Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, as I am wont to do, when the algorithm served up this post: A clipping from the Sept. 15, 1976, issue of the Marianas Variety headlined Most Decorated Micro. Service Man.

It’s an article about U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Raphael “Bao” Ngirmang.

Every week (that the Weekender comes out) we’ll leave you with a send-off song curated by my brother, Henry, whose musical tastes have left a lifelong impression on me and, now hopefully, you. ²

Take It or Leave It Sublime With Rome

We’ve also compiled a playlist on Spotify of past send-off songs and we’ll add to it every week.

Send-off songs By The Husk Playlist

Wherever you are in this big, wide world, I hope you’re doing well. Have a great weekend!

-Jasmine