The Thwaites (Doomsday) Glacier, Global Sea Level Rise, And Economic Impacts
Jan 29, 2022I thought this might be of interest to some of the AWS folk - and beyond. This semester I'm teaching Economic Sociology, but is it possible to consider such issues without paying attention to the interface between modern societies and the natural world?
I just posted this as an announcement to BlackBoard for my SLGY 3351 students. Others might be interested....
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I hope you're having a good weekend. For this coming week, I'd like you to watch a couple of videos. All told, they are not more than 30 minutes. Please watch them in the following order.
The first video is on the impending collapse of the Thwaites (Doomsday) glacier (and related melting of Antarctica) and the impact on global sea-level rise. Some scientists now studying Twaites believe in about three years the "you-know-what" will hit the fan. Note that the video doesn't consider what happens to the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet when Thwaites goes! Doomsday heaped upon Doomsday! Am I being "Chicken Little" here? - the sky is falling; the sky is falling! Or should we be heeding the Precautionary Principle, which argues that when science is undecided (but what are the likelihoods?), we should err on the side of caution?
1) https://youtu.be/T4RjPIzRApI
Global Sea-Level Rise (SLR) impact on California housing markets. As you watch this one, you may want to think about Ch. 2 of the text Mark Granovetter text (Society and Economy: Framework and Principles, 2017). And maybe wonder about other impacts of SLR on economies around the world. What impact will such monumental events have on local moral economies?
