Storm washes away seal and turtle island home

[Catherine]

East Island, Hawaii is the home of many of the world's Hawaiian Monk Seals. It is also the nesting site of half the world's Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles. A powerful hurricane washed East Island away. An added tragedy, many sea turtle nests had not hatched yet and were washed away with the island.

https://qz.com/1436004/east-island-a-rem...o-the-sea/

Welcome to the wonderful world of catastrophic climate change. Sea levels rising will wipe out many small islands anyhow, but before that can happen warmer oceans are causing more intense storms. East Island is one of many islands that will disappear because of global warming.

For Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles and Hawaiian Monk Seals it means the loss of their homes and quite possibly the loss of their species. For many creatures the changing climate and effects of what we have done to the planet will be fatal. If we cannot and will not do something we get to watch the world we know turn into something we may not want to know.  For East Island and the Hawaiian Monks Seals and Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles the world is already a place they don't want to know.  If you are a tired seal swimming, what do you do when the place you normally rest is gone? If you are a turtle preparing to lay eggs what do you do when your nesting site is gone?
If you don't care about this, maybe you should ask yourself what you will do when something you need is gone.