Living on the Edge in a Climate Changed World: Anticipating Extreme Weather, Tsunamis and Sea-Level Rise | EV & N 287 | CCTV

http://ecoethics.net/2014-ENVRE120/20180930-EV&N-287-Link.html

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Humans are becoming what demographers call a “marginal” species, choosing increasingly to live near to the edges — or “margins” — of continents.   This collective behavior is a prescription for repeated devastation in the changing global climate regime.

Disasters of increasing magnitude, frequency and severity will be forthcoming from extreme weather, tsunamis and sea-level rise.  Human communities must learn to develop new means of adapting to the coming trends and forthcoming climate shifts that will impact all coastal regions with escalating force in the coming years and decades.

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• Naomi Klein: A Year After Hurricane Maria, There Is Nothing Natural About Puerto Rico’s Disaster
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• Americans: the next climate migrants | Environment | The Guardian
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and

• Indonesia: Tsunami Death Toll Tops 1,400 as Volcano Erupts on Sulawesi

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• Climate & Sea-Level Update: Digital Dispatches from a World on the Edge series and particularly:
  • Boston Climate & Sea-Level Update – September 2018
  • Boston Climate & Sea-Level Update – October 2018
  • Boston Climate & Sea-Level Update – January 2019

 

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