In the wake of the New York People’s Climate March and the United Nations Climate Summit this week, the ever-growing demand to curb mankind’s impact on the natural environment is at an all time high. The New York Times this week published an article outlining soon-to-be hard hit cities, and cited Alaska as the safest haven in the threat of climate change: “Scientists trying to predict the consequences of climate change say that they see few havens from the storms, floods, and droughts that are sure to intensify over the coming decades. But some regions, they add, will fare much better than others. Forget most of California and the Southwest (drought, wildfires). Ditto for much of the East Coast and Southeast (heat waves, hurricanes, rising sea levels). Washington, D.C., for example, may well be a flood zone by 2100.” “The best place really is Alaska. Alaska is going to be the next Florida by the end of the century.” Alaska, the next Florida? Maybe even the next Brooklyn? (Our words, not theirs). If you have not yet had your climate change wake up call, this is surely it. With this in mind, it seems as though Anchorage-based Mayer Sattler-Smith is ...
In the wake of the New York People’s Climate March and the United Nations Climate Summit this week, the ever-growing demand to curb mankind’s impact on the natural environment is at an all time high. The New York Times this week published an article outlining soon-to-be hard hit cities, and cited Alaska as the safest haven in the threat of climate change: “Scientists trying to predict the consequences of climate change say that they see few havens from the storms, floods, and droughts that are sure to intensify over the coming decades. But some regions, they add, will fare much better than others. Forget most of California and the Southwest (drought, wildfires). Ditto for much of the East Coast and Southeast (heat waves, hurricanes, rising sea levels). Washington, D.C., for example, may well be a flood zone by 2100.” “The best place really is Alaska. Alaska is going to be the next Florida by the end of the century.” Alaska, the next Florida? Maybe even the next Brooklyn? (Our words, not theirs). If you have not yet had your climate change wake up call, this is surely it. With this in mind, it seems as though Anchorage-based Mayer Sattler-Smith is ...