Bali, Plastics, Snoop Dogg and Climate

From Plastic-Laden Waves to Global Climate Change: What’s the Untapped Lever in Saving Our Planet?

Photo: Farhana Huq

Originally published on Medium by Farhana Huq - September 26, 2024

After a month’s travel through Fiji as the first leg of my nonprofit sabbatical, I planned to head to a place not only where I could surf more waves, but where I could afford to spend out the rest of my sabbatical time. Bali came highly recommended by someone in my network who had visited the island and loved it. Admittedly, I had also read the book Eat, Pray, Love and noted the way the author revered Bali as a magical place of healing and introspection as she struggled to make sense of her midlife crisis.
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I was not in a midlife crisis, per se, but in search of some respite after the stress of running a nonprofit which often led to me being chronically ill and fatigued. I was also really wanting to improve as a surfer. And well, Bali was a mecca for waves. Surfers the world over flocked to it like pilgrims to a shrine. And so, I decided to join in on the “surf pilgrimage” and headed East towards this tiny island....

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