by Sarah Fox | Oct 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Just as rising global temperatures will accelerate change in ecological systems, a 4° Celsius world will catalyze social changes in the United States. In some parts of the country, these changes will include greater need for rapid emergency responses, heavier reliance...
by Cinnamon P. Carlarne | Oct 11, 2021 | climate change, Environmental Law
Climate change disrupts the boundaries that demarcate human existence. Boundaries are an essential tool in contemporary human life. They produce and entrench identity. They ground governance systems. They determine who can come, who must go, and what the terms for...
by Michele Okoh | Oct 8, 2021 | climate change, Environmental Law
Drought. Flooding. Extreme heat. Climate change has many tools for destruction, but no matter the disaster, in a 4° Celsius world, parts of the United States will be left uninhabitable. Significant portions of the population will be forced to leave their homes due to...
by David Takacs | Oct 8, 2021 | climate change, Environmental Law
A 4°C world will reshape the human and nonhuman landscapes of the planet. That’s axiomatic. This reshaping, which we could have avoided, will now unfurl beyond our control: Seas will inundate, storms will destroy, drought will parch. But within our control is how...
by Karrigan Bork | Oct 7, 2021 | climate change, Environmental Law
Professors Ruhl and Craig paint a vision of a 4ºC world marked by “discontinuous and often unpredictable transformation.” Nature, from climate to ecosystems to species, is hard to predict in the best of times. It’s a wild beast in a 4ºC world. This means that we will...
