#88 Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier and our planet
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Kicking off this year with January Showcase a great line up of speakers! RSVP here
Joey Shea, Manager Mission Activation at Interface - modeling a carbon neutral business, paving the way for a carbon negative future
Jakob Levin, Co-Founder of Seqana- delivering critical tools for carbon sequestration projects
May Al-Karooni, Founder & CEO of Globechain - powering reuse and redistribution of unneeded items
Raul Engelke, CEO of e-Mission - delivering engaging corporate sustainability and ESG training
📚 Worth Reading
Not to start the new year with a doomsday read but much has been written about Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier in the last few weeks after an updated research from scientists in early December. The slow melting this glacier, caused by just just 1 degree rise in world’s temperature, will have huge impact on sea level among other changes to ecology and the environment. The Thwaites Glacier is the size of Britain. If it collapses (aka melts), it has the potential to increase the global sea level to 10 feet! What does that mean? Not just more major floods but it will impact all coastlines with some cities disappearing all together. Scientists now have clear evidence that this glacier is destabilizing rapidly. It is not longer a fear and theory. Now scientists have data to compare the changes of this glacier over time.
Carbon offsets are important but not enough. We, as society, need to do more to reduce consumption, make supply chain more green, and do more all around to reduce the rising temperature. And more transformative innovation will help too.
It’s worth reading the following articles.
Melting of the Thwaites Glacier could rewrite the global coastline (5 min PBS show)
“Doomsday Glacier” Threat: Rapid Retreat of Antarctica’s Riskiest Glacier
Antarctica’s “Doomsday” Glacier: Its Collapse Could Trigger Global Floods and Swallow Islands
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April 23: Atlanta Green Business Market Fair
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