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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 Speaker Dr Winston Chow Jeff Goodell Assistant Professor Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone Department of Geography Author, The Water Will Come National University of Singapore

The Water Will Come Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World @jeffgoodell

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

Antarctica Thwaites Glacier

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: RISING SEAS, SINKING CI TI ES AND THE REMAKI NG OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD Speaker Moderator Jeff Goodell Dr Winston Chow Contributing Editor Rolling Stone Author, The Water Will Come Assistant Professor Department of Geography National University of Singapore