Speaker

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