The grand old man of coastal science, Dr. Orrin Pilkey warns we must begin withdrawing from the coast-line now, or wait for the coming panic. Then we dial the climate clock back a couple of hundred million years. That is when a massive warming on Earth drove most species to extinction. From the University of Toronto, Dr. Ulrich Wortmann explains the terrible similarity to our current voyage to hot world, with no one in the wheelhouse.
Interviews and music by Alex Smith
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