How Will Climate Change Transform American Democracy?
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- 麻豆果冻传媒
740 15th St NW #900
Washington, D.C. 20005 - 6PM 鈥 8PM EDT
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If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, impacting thousands of lives. Across the U.S., 鈥500-year鈥 storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually.
It鈥檚 not just an environmental catastrophe we have to worry about. The relentless climate change-related disasters also threaten to strain the very underpinnings of American democracy: uprooting communities, destroying tax bases, increasing racial and class inequalities, reducing trust in government and creating a less stable world beyond our borders.
But just as climate change is a human-made disaster, its solutions can be too. So how do we plan for such a future? And how do we work to prevent and mitigate the worst of it?
Join the 麻豆果冻传媒 Fellows Program and Future Tense for a conversation with David Wallace-Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling book , and , Staff Writer at the Atlantic, about the far-reaching impacts of climate change and steps policymakers and citizens can take to address short-term threats and build long-term strategies for resilience.
Agenda:
5:30 – 6:00 PM: Registration & Reception
6:00 – 7:30 PM: Discussion
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Speakers:
David Wallace-Wells,
2019 National Fellow
Author,
Columnist and deputy editor at New York Magazine
Vann Newkirk,
Staff Writer at the Atlantic
Co-founder, Seven Scribes
Copies of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming will be available for purchase through our bookselling partner .
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