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Wednesday, May 5 • 3:00pm - 3:45pm
The Great Climate Migration

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Wildfires in the West. Hurricanes in the East. Droughts and floods throughout the nation. Life has become increasingly untenable for tens of millions of Americans. In the southern hemispheres around the world, from rural Guatemalans to subsistence farmers in Kenya, facing drought or scorching heat, face an existential threat. Without money to address the problem, migration is often simply a question of survival. But where will everyone go?
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Ted Alvarez

Science & Environment Editor, Crosscut
Ted Alvarez is an editor at Crosscut and KCTS 9 focused on science and the environment. His work has also appeared in Backpacker, Grist.org, Air Canada En Route, Outside, Alaska Beyond, Rolling Stone, Men's Health, Skiing, Scientific American and many other outlets.

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Abrahm Lustgarten

Senior Reporter on Climate, ProPublica
Abrahm Lustgarten is a senior environmental reporter at ProPublica investigating climate change and our response to a rapidly shifting environment. He is the author of a three-part investigation for the New York Times Magazine about global human migration and climate change, and is... Read More →
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Sonia Shah

Science journalist and author of The Next Great Migration
Sonia Shah is a science journalist and author of The Next Great Migration: the beauty and terror of life on the move (Bloomsbury 2020), a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing prize and an Amazon "best science book" of 2020. Her book Pandemic: tracking contagions... Read More →


Wednesday May 5, 2021 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
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  SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

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