How Rising Water Levels Will Reshape Our World

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 25, 2017

Jeff Goodell, journalist and contributing editor at Rolling Stone, joins us to discuss his book The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World. Goodell traveled to 12 countries to find examples of how rising water levels caused by climate change are changing the land and the communities who live there.

Jeff Goodell will be signing books on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 6:00 p.m. at the Northshire Bookstore (424 Broadway Saratoga Springs, NY).

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