1. Hurricanes like roulette
2. Sea level rises 're shaping our world. Let me visit Maldives before it vanishes
3. 13 feet of sea level rise in a century will be catastrophic. Has happened before
3. Prediction now is 3 meters by end of this century as of now
4. Ice sheets collapse coz of melt water beneath the ice
5. Real estate price goes down for estates near coasts. Affects overall economy
6. By building dykes raising streets etc. Only temporary.
7. Need to be creative about our relationship with water. A need to be flexible and affordable
8. No city is an island
9. Ice cube in heat melts. Same thing with world.
10. Can raise the naval base elevate it. But what about the roads leading to it? Can we raise the whole world ?
11. Climate refugees. Where will the 10 million people displaced by water in Indonesia going to go?? .?
12. Don't need new technology to deal with water. Just new ways of thinking. Walls may not work
13. Cut carbon pollution fast. How?
Electric cars
Destroy coal factories.
Invest in clean energy factories
14. Make risk transparent to everyone. People need to know. Despite economic implications
15. Retreat is inevitable.
16, need to reinvent our use of energy. Clean energy is getting cheaper. So will change.
17. Thawing of permafrost
18. Not too late?
19. We are in the river with climate change. Curtains have gone up. We can affect the trajectories of this change.
He's been with Obama. And Kerry. And Paris. And going to Antarctica. Privileged to hear him
Climate change wiped out dinosaurs. It will wipe us out too. World as we know it ending is inevitable. Just matter of time. How? Worth it? To try to postpone it?
Trouble is,.. We are small. Like ants. Hard for us to see the world as a whole.
Human enemies are easier to fight than nature . Like day of the triffods . . E will make unmake remake ourselves eternally. Who will survive? Who will succumb?
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