Institute for Advanced Study Presents

Exploring remote islands and sea level rise

IAS Thursdays
Past event
Feb 15, 2018
Exploring remote islands and sea level rise

In "Let Them Drown," the 2016 London Edward W. Said lecture, Naomi Klein called attention, as Rob Nixon's Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor had done, to the nexus of climate change, (colonial) racism and poverty. But she shifted the spotlight onto the oft-overlooked low-lying island nations. And their current day situation is dire.

In Atlas of (Remote) Islands and Sea Level Rise Professor Christina Gerhardt presents the current climate change induced impacts on low lying islands and the solutions being put forward to them, often by the indigenous inhabitants of the islands themselves.