10-III, New York, īManaging the Impacts of Climate Change at Home and Abroadī

Managing the Impacts of Climate Change at Home and Abroad

Location: OSI-Brussels
Event Date: March 10, 2010
Event Time: 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Mark Hertsgaard

This Open Society Institute event provides the opportunity to hear a fresh take on climate change from Mark Hertsgaard, an Open Society Fellow and journalist who has covered the climate crisis for 20 years. Worsening conditions are locked in for the next 50 years, says Hertsgaard.  All of us must now prepare for the harsher heatwaves, droughts, storms, and rising sea levels that lie ahead, as well as for the political and economic challenges they raise.

In his forthcoming book, Hot: Living Through the Next 50 Years On Earth, Hertsgaard combines ground-level reporting from around the world with reflections on the future. He provides a picture of what is projected over the next 20 to 50 years: Chicago´s climate transformed to resemble Houston´s; dwindling water supplies and crop yields; the redesign of New York and other coastal cities against mega-storms and sea-level rise.

Above all, he shows who is taking wise, creative precautions.  For in the end, Hertsgaard is writing about how we can survive.

More from Mark Hertsgaard

Tackling Climate Crisis Will Save, Not Ruin, the Economy
Mark Hertsgaard
January 21, 2010
blog BLOG  
Obama should be driving home the message again and again: fighting climate change is in the economic interest of the vast majority of American workers and businesses.

 

The Battle Ahead: Climate Change After Copenhagen
OSI-New York
January 19, 2010
slideshow AUDIO
Open Society Fellow Mark Hertsgaard and OSI´s Nancy Youman share their eyewitness observations of the December 2009 climate change summit and assess its failure to establish ambitious goals for reducing carbon emissions.

 

The Adaptation Imperative—Food Security and Climate Change
OSI-New York
July 22, 2009
video VIDEO   slideshow AUDIO
Open Society Fellow Mark Hertsgaard and others discuss the implications of climate change for food production and global hunger.