Climate Winners and Losers

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🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The new climate reality means that even those living on a hill will be affected by flooding in the valley, and those living in the North will be affected by droughts in the South. There are many factors to consider how you will be affected by climate change. “I think this question of inequity is also really, really important,” states Katharine Mach. “And the flipside of that is that wealth is not necessarily protection.” Who will win and lose as climate disruption impacts agriculture, employment, crime, storms and human mortality. Do you live in the right place to come out ahead? Guests: Solomon Hsiang, Chancellor's Associate Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley Katherine Mach, Senior Research Scientist, Stanford University This program was recorded live at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on May 30, 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0	Is a hotter planet necessarily all bad news?
0:40.7	We do spend a lot of resources trying to cope with the cold.
0:43.7	And so there are many parts of the world where if you get a little bit warmer or if you
0:46.5	get a little bit more rainfall or a little less rainfall, you actually can take those resources
0:50.5	that you were spending on, you know, shoveling your driveway or playing some
0:54.6	to plow it, and you can invest those in something much more productive.
0:58.3	But would any benefit from a changing climate be offset by the social cost?
1:02.2	Well, we create winners and losers in terms of the big companies able to shift their supply
1:06.5	change readily at the same time that people on the ground in small communities in Africa or small
1:11.8	rural communities in the southeast in the U.S., for example, can't as readily make those
1:16.5	types of rather dramatic, fast adjustments.
1:24.5	Winners and losers in a warmer world. Up next on Climate One.
1:30.3	I'm Devon Strolovich.
1:32.3	Rising temperatures and seas will produce losers and winners.
1:36.3	Some parts of the world will see more moderate weather and economic gains.
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