Planet Earth 2072

I think that young people are feeling anxiety in multiple forms. On the one end, many of us were born into a world that never really made sense.
Continue reading →: Climate Change and Hope: Perspectives from Young Activists
One challenge for people is how many days during the year there will be street flooding in front of their houses? That’s going to create a problem. So I think about it: how many days is there going to be six inches of water for over six hours in front…
Continue reading →: Adapting to Climate Change: Lessons from Miami
There’s not a single aspect of society that climate change isn’t going to touch. So that, to me, is the scariest thing because I often think about how I can help more.
Continue reading →: Fighting Climate Change: Insights from Young Activists
He pulled a small light stick from his pocket, flashed it along the wall, then dropped it and fell backward. OH God! Devon? Hey, Devon? Rich picked up the light stick and pointed it to the corner of the room. The color in Devon’s face was gone. It had congealed…
Continue reading →: I’ll Be Damned
What will happen to the places we love, our hometowns, and the people we love? Will we be able to raise our children the same way our parents did? Will we have the same access to the same job opportunities, housing opportunities, and health care as our parents did? Or…
Continue reading →: How the Younger Generation is Tackling Climate Anxiety
They showed me some projections for South Florida, and that’s when I said, all right, this is serious business here. This is not just something that we should care about. This is something that we need to act on as soon as possible. And that’s really what began my deep…
Continue reading →: The Political Evolution of Climate Change: Lessons Learned
I think we’re probably going to lose a good half dozen neighborhoods between now and when I die and that we have to figure out a good way to lose them.
Continue reading →: Miami Properties: The Pros and Cons of Paradise Living
What happens if, to save the thing that you love, you lose what you love about it?
Continue reading →: The Future of South Florida: Climate Change and Community Impact
Young people are scared for the future. Why shouldn’t they be? We’re facing a climate crisis. Mind you, when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s the word global warming was entering the vernacular, but we didn’t see a crisis. Temperatures keep rising. Weather patterns are changing. All of this…
Continue reading →: Welcome to Planet Earth 2072
Alicia slipped a packet of sweetener across the table. Dark Monkey pulled up, and with his index finger and thumb, he pulled from underneath it a microchip. “That’s a formula that shows why Caru is likely going to hit us as a massive storm.” “How likely?” “It’s almost eighty percent…
Continue reading →: A Storm Is Coming