Miyazaki said she was lucky enough to be taken overseas many times by her parents when she was young, so she has experienced enough not to be "shocked" by much. Still, she says, her experience of talking to fishermen in Greenland and then, a little while later, fishermen in the Maldives was shocking.
"Up until then, the fishermen in Greenland had to go out by dogsled to work, but now they can go by boat, because the ice is melting," she says. "So they are now able to catch many more fish and they're like, 'We're lucky!' But in the Maldives, the people are saying, 'Save us! Save us!' because their islands are about to disappear under water. The two groups of fishermen are so far apart, but they're so connected."
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