Past Events
Managing the Impacts of Climate Change at Home and Abroad
| Location: | OSI-Brussels |
| Event Date: | March 10, 2010 |
| 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.
