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City of Rising Waters: Discussing Climate Change

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Evelyn Kanter

climate change in NYCAs NYC approaches the fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, and we see the devastation in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean from Irma and Maria, it’s a good time to look at how NYC and other coastal cities can survive climate change as a coastal city surrounded by rising water.  The Museum of the City of New York takes an all-day look at the issue on Sunday, Oct. 22, with a series of panel discussions with environmental and social experts.

It is the opening program in ther new series, New York’s Future in a Changing Climate, which explores the challenges and opportunities presented in the Museum’s

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Future City Lab, the interactive third gallery in the New York at Its Core exhibition.

Conversation One | 2:00 pm
Confronting the Unthinkable

Novelist Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, joins Dr. Naomi Oreskes, author and historian of science, and Dr. Elke Weber, psychologist and social theorist, for a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary conversation moderated by Andrew Revkin, Senior Reporter at ProPublica, about the cultural and psychological context of climate change and the extreme difficulty we experience in facing the facts — and the future — head-on.

Conversation Two | 3:30 pm
Community Responses to Climate Change

In the face of inaction at the national level, cities and their residents represent the best hope for an effective response to climate change. Join a group of artists and community organizers at the forefront of these interventions for a conversation about creative approaches to climate change, from grassroots initiatives to provocative artistic projects.

Cecil Corbin-Mark, Deputy Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Harlem
Mary Mattingly, visual artist and founder of Swale, a floating food forest built atop a barge
Elizabeth Yeampierre, Executive Director, UPROSE, Sunset Park
Courtney St. John (moderator), Director of Energy Transition, Climate Nexus

A reception follows at 4:45, and the museum is open for viewing exhibits until 6pm.

Tickets are $35 for seniors, students and educators; $40 general admission, including the reception and museum admission.

About the Speakers:
Cecil Corbin-Mark is Deputy Director and Director of Policy Initiatives for WEACT for Environmental Justice in Harlem. Corbin-Mark previously worked for the Bronx County District Attorney, New York State Justice Honorable W. T. Martin, the Mellon Minority Scholars Program, and the New York Public Library.

Amitav Ghosh is the author of award winning titles including The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, and The Glass Palace. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and his essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The New York Times. His book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, was published in July 2016.

Mary Mattingly is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work explores issues of sustainability, climate change, and displacement. She is the founder of Swale, a floating food forest built atop a barge that travels to piers in New York City, offering educational programming and welcoming visitors to harvest herbs, fruits, and vegetables for free.

Dr. Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Her 2004 essay “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change” (Science 306: 1686) has been widely cited, including in the Academy-award winning film, “An Inconvenient Truth”, and in Ian McEwan’s novel, Solar.

Andrew Revkin (moderator, Confronting the Unthinkable) is Senior Reporter for climate and related issues at ProPublica. He has written on climate change for 30 years, from the Amazon to the North Pole, the White House to the Vatican. He joined the staff of the Pulitzer-winning public-interest newsroom in December after 21 years of writing for The New York Times. He has written acclaimed books on global warming and the changing Arctic and the Amazon rain forest.

Courtney St. John (moderator, Community Responses to Climate Change) is the Director of Energy Transition at Climate Nexus. St. John previously held positions at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, on the U.S. Navy’s Task Force Climate Change and as a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow in the Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy. In 2015, Courtney was honored as a Climate “sHero,” one of nineteen women working to advance action on climate change in New York City.

Dr. Elke Weber is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Her research examines and models decision-making under risk and uncertainty and time delay from a psychological and neuroscience perspective, with a focus on understanding and potentially correcting the often far from rational environmental decisions we make.

Elizabeth Yeampierre is the Executive Director of UPROSE, an internationally recognized Puerto Rican attorney, and environmental and climate justice leader of African and Indigenous ancestry. A national leader in climate justice movement, she co-chairs of the Climate Justice Alliance.

Note that assistive listening devices are available during events. The auditorium can accommodate manual wheelchairs, however, the wheelchair lift cannot currently accommodate electric or motorized wheelchairs. Please contact the Public Programs Department at 917.492.3395 or programs@mcny.org with any questions or concerns.

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Posted by Evelyn Kanter on October 6, 2017 | Updated October 21, 2017 Filed Under: Autumn in New York · Hurricane Sandy · NYC Museums Tagged With: climate change

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  1. Stephanie Vandenburg says

    October 6, 2017 at 6:12 PM

    I love your column. I will be going to Central Park on October 14. What will be happening around town on that Saturday?

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    • Evelyn Kanter says

      October 6, 2017 at 6:18 PM

      Thanks for your kind comments. We publish the weekend guide each Thursday morning.

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