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Phoebe Barnard
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Biodiversity, climate, risk, resilience, future of society& civilization. Affiliate full professor environmental futures&conservation biology at Univ Washington; research associate at African Climate& Development Initiative&Fitzpatrick Inst, Univ Cape Town
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keep thinking about my student last year from asheville who read that investors were buying up property there in expectation of it becoming a climate migration destination and she wrote her final paper about how that doesn't seem quite right given its flood risk history and maps like this one

Unpriced climate risk and the potential consequences of overvaluation in US housing markets - Nature Climate Change
Unpriced climate risk and the potential consequences of overvaluation in US housing markets - Nature Climate Change

Natural hazards exacerbated by climate change pose serious risks to property markets in the United States. Ignoring these risks could create instability in housing values. This research shows the magn...

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“What we need now is a powerful cultural movement to portray and evoke — in imaginative ways and in every community — the coming impacts of climate chaos. We should be making discontinuity legible on the landscapes around us.” - @AlexSteffen via @RupertRead x.com/alexsteffen/...

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It is truly hard in my bones - in my heart, my viscera, at the back of my throat - to repost this. None of us can "like" it. The question is, how will each of us be involved in shifting this civilization and economy fast into lighter, kinder, wiser, humble, collaborative, sustainable ones?

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Also: a couple of Adam Welz's audio interviews earlier this year are now available online: - chat with Eric Kane on Bloomberg's ESG Currents podcast: Amazon: music.amazon.com/podcasts/fb4...podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...open.spotify.com/show/3afZI5e...

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3. Seminary Co-op bookstore - Sat 28 Sep, 3-4pm Book talk & signing at this classic Chicago indie bookstore. RSVPs encouraged but not required. Details here: www.semcoop.com/event/adam-w...

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2. Univ of Chicago - Thurs 26 Sep, 4:30-6pm - talk + discussion on challenges of mitigating climate crisis while preventing species extinction. It should be vigorous and wide-ranging! Entrance is free - just show up at the venue. Details here: events.uchicago.edu/event/238078...

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Phoebe Barnard
@phoebebarnard.bsky.social
Biodiversity, climate, risk, resilience, future of society& civilization. Affiliate full professor environmental futures&conservation biology at Univ Washington; research associate at African Climate& Development Initiative&Fitzpatrick Inst, Univ Cape Town
262 followers288 following160 posts