Report: Appalachia Could Be a Haven for Climate Change Migrants
Decades from now, the United States will be wildly different, even unrecognizable. Some of the most dramatic changes will occur in regions few thought were especially vulnerable to climate change at all.
Abrahm Lustgarten • On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
will explain how Americans in some of the most populated regions of the country have put themselves at particular risk, exposing a pattern of shortsighted policies that encouraged people to settle in vulnerable parts of the continent. It will show how decades of economic policies have favored some Americans over others, polarizing the country furth
... See moreAbrahm Lustgarten • On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America
Climate catastrophe is coming. We know this. What we don’t know is how bad it will be. In the best case scenario, an unprecedented global Green New Deal rapidly transitions the world economy off of carbon, holding global temperature rise under 3°C.61 This causes large-scale polar ice melt, 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050,62 and major habitat di
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Climate catastrophe is coming. We know this. What we don’t know is how bad it will be. In the best case scenario, an unprecedented global Green New Deal rapidly transitions the world economy off of carbon, holding global temperature rise under 3°C.61 This causes large-scale polar ice melt, 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050,62 and major habitat di
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Climate catastrophe is coming. We know this. What we don’t know is how bad it will be. In the best case scenario, an unprecedented global Green New Deal rapidly transitions the world economy off of carbon, holding global temperature rise under 3°C.61 This causes large-scale polar ice melt, 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050,62 and major habitat di
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
...new approaches to climate-related insurance lines (flood, wildfire, etc.), re-location away from vulnerable areas, and sustainable building techniques and materials (even deconstruction).
% Derisible • Theses for 2020
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When Titley talks about migration, though, even he struggles to put the stakes in context. In the 2040s, if global sea levels rise by three feet and droughts, fires, heat waves, and floods continue to worsen, we could see around 250 million people forced from their homes. That’s about four times as many people as are currently displaced and about 5... See more
Eric Holthaus • Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’
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