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Climate One

Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come

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Climate One

Social Sciences, Earth Sciences, Science, News Commentary, News

4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Rising waters represent the most visible and tangible impact of climate disruption. Protecting people and property from all that water, while simultaneously ensuring billions have enough to drink, will have unfathomable costs and alter the lives of most people living on earth. Jeff Goodell, Author, Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone Marco Kraples, Former VP, Tesla; Producer, Before the Flood Katharine Mach, Senior Research Scientist, Stanford University This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, CA on November 8, 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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energy, economy, and the environment. We know that melting ice caps are causing the world's oceans to rise,

0:40.4

but for those of us who don't own beachfront property,

0:42.8

it may be hard to fathom the consequences of a few feet of water.

0:46.4

Recent extreme weather events like Sandy, Harvey, and Irma

0:49.5

have given some U.S. cities a hint of what might be in store.

0:53.2

One way to think about this is as a kind of dress rehearsal for sea level rise.

0:57.2

I mean, imagine this kind of water coming in,

0:59.9

and instead of just spending a couple of hours there and going out,

1:02.6

the way it did with Sandy, it stayed in.

1:05.5

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