Today we start with an account of two actual battles which illustrate two strategies for how we might respond to the huge challenge posed by climate change.
Now some battles are like that, but others are not. If we win this battle, we get to avoid catastrophe.
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But in many parts of the world, this is no longer true.Kristina Hill: Sea level rise is a reality that's not going to be avoided by eliminating CO2 or methane emissions.Shankar Vedantam: This week on Hidden Brain, how to fight the inevitable.Shankar Vedantam: When we talk about climate change, we often talk about it as a battle. Year after year, policymakers tell us it is our last and final chance to overcome the crisis.Joe Biden: In my view, we've already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis and we can't wait any longer.Shankar Vedantam: The implication here is that while it is late, it is not too late to head off catastrophe. The whole world is facing just those circumstances right now.Shankar Vedantam: By now, we have grown accustomed to thinking of climate change as the enemy we must urgently defeat. Times in the past where heroism made the difference in a crucial battle that defined history. Think back through the histories of the cities represented here and the nations they are found in. The world is waking up and change is coming whether you like it or not.Shankar Vedantam: And here is former vice president, Al Gore.Al Gore: This is our generation's life or death battle. Here's activist, Greta Thunberg.Greta Thunburg: Right here, right now is where we draw the line. After violent-New Speaker: Experts have attributed the extreme weather to climate change.New Speaker: The impact of climate change.New Speaker: No one is immune from climate change.Shankar Vedantam: Whenever a climate related disaster strikes, policymakers and environmentalists issue a call to arms. I mean, we've never seen anything like this in the Pacific Northwest.New Speaker: Historic and catastrophic flooding in Western Europe, with at least 199 people killed and hundreds more still missing. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedantam.Seemingly every other month, we hear about the latest example of a thousand year flood, a hundred year hurricane, the once in a lifetime forest fire.Various voices (news announcers etc): Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God, Oh, my God! The road is on fire.New Speaker: Fire in Oregon just one of 70 wildfires raging across 12 states.New Speaker: Portland 116 degrees, that is a new all time record. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Watch this video presentation by Kristina Hill on sea level rise. Learn more about Hassan Maniku’s NGO, Invena. Read Sarah Miller’s funny and interesting article on sea level rise, “ Heaven or High Water.” “ Climate Change: Implications for the Assumptions, Goals and Methods of Urban Environmental Planning,” Kristina Hill. “ How Close is the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to a ‘Tipping Point’?” Christina Hulbe. “ Adapting Coastal Cities to Rising Groundwater,” Kristina Hill. “ The Tipping Points and Early Warning Indicators for Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica,” Sebastian H.R. “ Adapting to Sea Level Rise: Insights from a New Evaluation Framework of Physical Design Projects,” Daniella Hirscheld, Kristina Hill, Ellen Plane. And to learn more about human behavior and ideas that can improve your life, subscribe to our newsletter at. If you like our work, please consider supporting it! See how you can help at. But is that the right metaphor for the greatest existential problem of our time? This week, we consider how to reframe the way we think about life on a changing planet. We’ve grown accustomed to viewing climate change as an enemy we must urgently defeat.
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