Environmental Changes In Ship Breaker

In Ship Breaker, Nailer realized that the world has changed from the past, and that many places were gone due to environmental changes. Flooding has an enormous impact on how the environment changes the way of life. For example, “The pirates were bitter enemies of the trading fleets and perfectly willing to kill or sink an entire cargo as revenge for the drowning of their own ancestral lands.”(page 257) After the ice caps melted, there was massive flooding and sea-level rise around the world. The north was hit hard, as the flooding and loss of land changed how they usually lived. They turned into pirates, with nothing else to accomplish and resentful to everyone. Also, according to an article on climate change, the U.S. Environmental Protection