There's a wind from the sea pushing the clouds; before you see them, you feel the wind.
Somewhere along the way, however, all that doom and gloom drifted out to sea, pushed away not by blue-sky idealism but by a temperate, practical faith in the idea that machines are nothing to be afraid of, that we can use them when, where and how we want to use them and that technology might actually improve our lives.
The current thinking around generating electricity centers around wave power – effectively putting turbines into the water which move as the sea pushes against them.
On that day, half of the regiment led North Korean forces against South Korean troops by land and sea, pushing them back after several days of fighting.
With global storage tanks filling up, this surplus oil is being redirected to tanker ships at sea, pushing rates for supertankers up to nearly $100,000 a day.
Further exacerbating the issue, Thailand cracked down on land-based migrant routes earlier this year, forcing smugglers to traffic people by sea, pushing even more to Malaysia.
But raging seas pushed her west into the Gulf of Mexico.
China has stirred up the waters with its territorial incursions on reefs and shoals in its "near seas", pushing many of its insecure neighbours closer to America.
But a recent crescendo of devastating impacts – heatwaves, deadly flooding, storm surges fuelled by rising seas – pushed world leaders to inscribe even more demanding temperature targets in the Paris pact, inked by 195 nations in December.
Changing fashions and the discovery of petroleum doomed the industry to obsolescence, but the knights-errant of the high seas pushed ever onward, anachronisms from the age of sail surviving into the machine age.
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