It is tough and even large organizations with the means and the will to help our world remain beautiful and habitable, find it difficult to make a dent when it comes to having sway over disparate governments and poor countries who logically see environmental protection as a luxury they cannot afford.

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And in April, my husband, Todd, and I welcomed our littlest one into the world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trig.

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Trips alight on various islands and also the Antarctic Peninsula to visit research stations run by different countries, giving a sense of the island's recent human history and the fragility of our hold on this most remote part of the world, beautiful and full of thrilling danger all at once.

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It kills the land, nature and eventually the whole world and our dear planet, which we think is a beautiful one.

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And for many of the same reasons: because they're beautiful to look at, because of what they disclose about our world and about us, and, not least, because someone else may pay you even more money for them than you paid.

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