Category: Climate Change
A Slow-burn Existential Threat
Even in a best case scenario, the consensus is that we’ll get at least two feet of sea level rise by the year 2100.
One big question is: What will happen when flooding gets worse and worse and people decide there’s no hope for them anymore to live in their respective towns.
Jon Gertner is a journalist and historian whose stories on science, technology, and nature have appeared in a host of national magazines. Since 2003 he has worked mainly as a feature writer for the New York Times Magazine. His first book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, was a New York Times bestseller. His latest is The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future.