Southeast Queens lawmaker to deliver Earth Day address while standing in the Rockaway surf

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State Senator James Sanders will commemorate Earth Day on Friday by delivering a speech about the significance of climate change while standing knee-deep in the Atlantic Ocean off the Rockaway Peninsula, wearing a suit and standing behind a podium.

Sanders was inspired by a similar demonstration, which was conducted last November by Simon Kofe, the foreign minister of Tuvalu, a South Pacific archipelago that is under constant threat from rising sea levels. Kofe delivered his address as a warning to the world about the dangers of climate change.