Click above to listen to Part 4 of New Water Worlds, featuring Jeff Goodell, journalist and author of “The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World”, discussing current and potential future solutions to the flooding of coastal cities.

New Water Worlds:
Part 1: Jeff Goodell / Doomed Miami
Part 2: Brian Fagan / Ancestral Adaptation
Part 3: David Anderson / Endangered History
Part 4: Jeff Goodell / Flood Solutions

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