"One small country, in which 0.0002% of the worlds population lives in
one of the planets most biodiverse habitats, has taken it upon itself to
model for the rest of humanity an inspired step along the path forward.
In 1981, just after a dazzling new species of nautilus was discovered
in its turquoise waters, the Republic of Palau -- a tiny, vast-spirited
Pacific island nation midway between Australia and Japan, crowned with
coral castles and radiant with otherworldly jellyfish -- voted for the
world's first constitutional ban on nuclear and biological weapons,
overriding political pressure from the titanic United States to continue
testing and storing its own nuclear arsenal there." More in this
inspiring post by Maria Popova.
