Can we adapt to climate change?

Should we move away from low-lying coastal areas?
What role should the military play?
How do we manage conflict over water?

Sink or Swim: How the world needs to adapt to a changing climate considers the latest climate science on impacts and how the world is responding to heatwaves, floods, sea-level rise, storms and droughts. It makes the argument that we’re not doing enough to adapt, and there are a set of hard political choices ahead; that we need to do much more to adapt and we need to all engage in these choices to make a liveable world for everyone.

Susannah Fisher is a Wandsworth resident. She has been working on adaptation for over 15 years, and the book draws on her professional experience as well as the latest research.

‘Compelling and meticulously researched’.
Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN Special Envoy on Climate

‘Brilliant and crucial’.
Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC and co-author of The Future we Choose

‘Realistically stark but hopeful’.
Mike Berners-Lee, author of A Climate of Truth

‘A truly important contribution’.
Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

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