{"id":15700,"date":"2015-12-27T09:40:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15700"},"modified":"2015-12-27T09:40:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T14:40:53","slug":"as-we-adapt-to-climate-change-who-gets-left-behind-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15700","title":{"rendered":"As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n
A new documentary shows planning options to mitigate a new climate, but questions about the global South are largely ignored.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Climate change is a global process that plays out on the ground in dramatically different ways based on where, and how, we live on that globe. How human communities will adapt to global warming\u2019s effects will depend not only on geography, but also\u2014like so many things in the modern world\u2014on money.<\/p>\n

The documentary\u00a0Weather Gone Wild<\/i>\u00a0reports on inventive ways officials and ordinary people are adapting to the predictable unpredictability of the more extreme weather we are experiencing\u2014and will continue to experience, more intensely\u2014due to climate change.<\/p>\n

The adaptations, both present and planned, that the Canadian film documents range from the mundane (installing backwater valves to protect homes from sewage backup during floods) to the fantastical (floating cities in which people won\u2019t have to worry about being flooded). The film moves from Canadian cities that have seen record floods in recent years, to New York City and the lessons learned from Hurricane Sandy, to the disappearing beaches of South Florida, with a stop in the Netherlands, ground zero for coping with too much water.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s only at the end of the film that the narrator reminds viewers that however threatening the effects of wilder weather in the affluent global North, it will be in the poorer global South that the human suffering will be most dramatic. Flooding in Toronto\u2019s streets is a city planning and engineering problem for which we can imagine solutions, but sea-level rise in Bangladesh means large-scale migration and death that we are afraid to imagine.<\/p>\n

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As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind? A new documentary shows planning options to mitigate a new climate, but questions about the global South are largely ignored. Climate change is a global process that plays out on the ground in dramatically different ways based on where, and how, we live on that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4280,141,288,369,11257,6085],"class_list":["post-15700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-adaptation","tag-climate-change","tag-extreme-weather","tag-global-warming","tag-weather-gone-wild","tag-yes-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15701,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15700\/revisions\/15701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}