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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

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Jeff Goodell

Contributing 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 Chow

Assistant Professor Department of Geography National University of Singapore

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The Water Will Come

Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

@jeffgoodell

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The water will come — the question is, how high and how fast?

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The Risk Keeps Growing

High end projections of sea level rise by 2100

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Thwaites Glacier Antarctica

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A Stable Glacier

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The Warming-Ocean Effect

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The Ice Fractures

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The Collapse Begins

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Trouble begins long before a city becomes the new Atlantis.

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From 2005 to 2017, Seventeen Coastal States Lost $16 Billion in Relative Property Value

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Billions of dollars will be spent on adaptation and preservation. Some of it will be well-spent. A lot of it will not.

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MOSE VENEZIA

The MOSE system cost: $6,453,000,000

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Opportunity sometimes comes disguised as catastrophe.

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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?
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THE WATER WILL COME:

RISING SEAS, SINKING CI TI ES AND THE REMAKI NG OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD

Speaker

Jeff Goodell

Contributing Editor Rolling Stone Author, The Water Will Come Moderator

Dr Winston Chow

Assistant Professor Department of Geography National University of Singapore