Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
It's a fact--rising sea level is now unstoppable. We have to adapt while there is still time. Flooding from rising seas is a deadly threat to coastal communities around the world. Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward explores how sea level rise will affect investments, economies, national security, and the environment . . . and what we need to do to tackle the challenge.
Internationally renowned oceanographer John Englander outlines strategies for everyone who will be affected by this phenomenon. Homeowners, business leaders, engineers, architects, and investors alike will benefit from Englander's honest analysis and visionary view for sustainable communities.
Englander's previous bestselling book, High Tide on Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis, clearly explained the surprising science behind rising sea levels. In this new and expanded work, he provides updates on the rapid melting in Antarctica and Greenland that could raise sea level ten feet in the coming decades, redrawing coastlines and maps worldwide. Moving to Higher Ground also offers readers tools to assess risk, such as a personal vulnerability checklist and a 9-Box Matrix for professional flood planning.
To survive what's coming, we need bold leadership to get ahead of this humanitarian and economic crisis. As tens of millions of people globally begin to face the challenge of rising seas and the permanent impact on coastal regions, there is also opportunity. Though trillions of dollars' worth of assets will go underwater, adapting to rising seas will also be the economic engine of this century, allowing us to build a viable world for ourselves . . . and for future generations.
"We have already passed the climate change tipping point; substantial sea level rise is now baked into our immediate future . . . but we still have a chance to keep the costly and damaging from becoming the crushing and catastrophic. John gives us a primer on how we got to this point and, more importantly, what we must do now to manage the flood that's coming at us. In this extraordinary book, John gives us valuable historical perspective, fascinating insights and powerful data about what is happening now, and sound thinking about where we go from here (hint: it's most likely inland)." --Senator Angus King
Synopsis
Ice on land is melting, and sea level is rising, both at astonishing rates never seen in recorded history. Are you, your property, investments, and family ready for these unprecedented changes? Read Moving to Higher Ground and... Learn how Sea Level Rise (SLR) is unstoppable for many centuries due to excess heat already stored in our oceans - and how soon our shorelines will go underwater... Understand how disastrous SLR will profoundly affect more than 10,000 coastal communities as soon as 2050, both in the U.S. and globally. What will happen where you live? How much will the water rise? And when? For the first time in print, use the same 9-box prediction matrix many professionals use.
Find out why extreme weather events, forest fires, and flooding share the same causes as catastrophic SLR, but weather disruptions are temporary and SLR permanent. Devastatingly so.
Discover what industries and properties will feel the greatest, and earliest, impacts. Learn what all planners and coastal property owners need to know now to urgently begin to move and adapt.
Examine the unique problems faced by the military, Infrastructure planners, architects, flood managers, policy planners, banks, insurance companies, and real estate businesses. And some unique solutions.
Find out how and why government policy makers have been completely ineffective delivering any successful strategy for climate change and sea level rise. Answer the questions, WHAT SHOULD WE DO NOW?, And what does THE PATH FORWARD look like?
In time of great financial and environmental peril, WHO WILL LEAD US? Prepare to be surprised at the answer. John Englander is a renowned oceanographer and expert on climate change and sea level rise. His best-selling first book, High Tide on Main Street, was published in 2012.
PRAISE for Moving to Higher Ground
"In this extraordinary book, John Englander gives us valuable historical perspective, fascinating insights, and powerful data about what is happening now, and sound thinking about where we go from here..."
-- Senator Angus King, U.S. Senator from Maine
"... a timely, very well-written and outstanding book on the greatest threat facing humanity today: climate change and sea level rise."
--Jean-Michel Cousteau, President, Ocean Futures Society
A brilliantly written book that captures the unprecedented challenges the world faces as sea level continues to rise at rates unknown to modern humankind . . ."
--Dr. Robert (Bob) Corell, former National Science Foundation Assistant Director
"There's no question that the ocean is on the move, and so many communities will need to move as well."
--Bill McKibben, Founder of 350.org