I reading the Interview by Miami New Times: “Urban Geographer Stephanie Wakefield on Climate Change: ‘This Could Be Our Opportunity.
The evidence is all around, and it forecasts rising sea levels,warming temperatures, changing wildlife patterns, and increasingly volatile storm seasons.
it is talk about the climate change.
There’s also near-consensus among scientists that climate change is almost entirely our doing. Man’s relationship with, and effect on, the natural world is one of the overarching questions guiding Stephanie Wakefield’s research and practice as an urban geographer.
and the problem of icebergs in Antartica and soon the animal loses to s small fraction of the population.
‘Super Venices’ supported by seawalls, pumping systems, and ecologically resilient infrastructures like oyster reefs or reflooded wetlands,” Wakefield begins somewhat optimistically,
‘Is our current political system capable of producing a desirable or livable outcome for humanity is the answer is probably no.
In Wakefield’s view, this adaptation and reworking of societal structures is key to the project of sustaining humanity. “Ultimately, this could be our opportunity to stake out entirely new possibilities for ourselves and each other.
The time for this is now, and we need to get the process rolling in a major way,while others are undoubtedly going to require complex global cooperation.
I most think about that already happening in incredibly popular phenomena like CrossFi.
Part of the reason Wakefield is giving a talk at the ICA, an art institution, has to do with erasing old boundaries. We’re all in this together, and we’ll need one another to arrive at the solutions that will drive humanity forward.
