Thwaites Glacier

September 22, 2022


How does a rising ocean affect you?

At a bare minimum it creates increasing climate anxiety and a fear for our future.

-K.S.

 

If sea level rises rapidly, which is likely, many millions of people will become climate refugees. Their movements will affect all of us.

-Don

 

It makes me think that we need to act faster to stop climate change, NOW!

-Sung

A rising ocean has no immediate effect and due to its slow speed humans can adapt and thrive.

-Aaron H.

 

A rising ocean might lead to more migration of people to places away from the ocean, like where I live.

-P.J.L.

 

It means our taxes have to go to rebuilding on the coast, or protecting the coast.

-Jodi

Ingrid Zabel2022