Why connect the dots between real estate, the arts, smart luxury, and resilience?
Because, as David Wallace-Wells has pointed out in “The Uninhabitable Earth”, that has quickly become New York Magazine’s most read article, ever, global warming is “worse than you think.”
Mr. Wallace-Wells believes, and I share his belief, that “the public does not appreciate the scale of climate risk.” We have not spent enough time contemplating “the risks beyond sea-level rise.” And, “that, when it comes to the challenge of climate change, public complacency is a … problem.”
We need to contemplate the risks, try to appreciate their scale, and try not be complacent.
Many of us live in houses or buildings of some shape and size, love works of art, perhaps speculate in the arts and real estate (buy for purposes of expected appreciation), and enjoy the craft, material, and sophistication of luxury. So, what about resilience?
Resilience is the ability to pick up, recover, and get through when the going gets tough. We all might need to grow our capacity for resilience. We might need also to adjust how we conduct our lives.
While “rising oceans are bad, in fact very bad; but fleeing the coastline will not be enough.” “Absent a significant adjustment to how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth will likely become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century.”
So let’s keep reading and start, perhaps, adjusting our behaviors. A little bit at a time. Yes? In posts to come I will, step by step, dissect and curate information from Mr. Wallace-Wells’ opus magnum.
See:
“The Uninhabitable Earth, Annotated Edition” | David Wallace-Wells, New York Magazine, 14 July 2017
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