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Jeff GoodellContributing Editor, Rolling Stone
Author, The Water Will Come
T H E W A T E R W I L L C O M E :
R I S I N G S E A S , S I N K I N G C I T I E S A N D T H E
R E M A K I N G O F T H E C I V I L I Z E D W O R L D
Moderator
Dr Winston ChowAssistant Professor
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
The Water Will ComeRising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
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The water will come — the
question is, how high and how fast?
The Risk Keeps Growing
High end projections of sea level rise by 2100
Thwaites
Glacier
Antarctica
A Stable Glacier
The Warming-Ocean Effect
The Ice Fractures
The Collapse Begins
Trouble begins long before a city
becomes the new Atlantis.
From 2005 to 2017,
Seventeen Coastal
States Lost $16
Billion in Relative
Property Value
Billions of dollars will be spent on
adaptation and preservation. Some of it
will be well-spent. A lot of it will not.
MOSE VENEZIA
The MOSE system cost: $6,453,000,000
Opportunity sometimes comes
disguised as catastrophe.
B I G Q U E S T I O N S
• Will we get serious about cutting carbon?
• When does the real estate market collide with climate science?
• Where will the money for adaptation come from?
• How quickly will we stop building walls and learn to live with water?
• Who decides who (and what) will be saved?
THE WATER WILL COME: R I S I N G S E A S , S I N K I N G
C I T I E S A N D T H E R E M A K I N G
O F T H E C I V I L I Z E D W O R L D
Speaker
Jeff GoodellContributing Editor Rolling Stone
Author, The Water Will Come
Moderator
Dr Winston ChowAssistant Professor
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
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