Sea Level Rise, Ecological Overshoot, Industrial Civilization, Existential Crises, Planetary Boundaries.
extreme event (a slow-moving catastrophe).Data suggests that the 20th century witnessed a faster rate of SLR than the 18th and 19th centuries. And in the 21st century, it has risen by more than 2 times- from 0.06 inches per year in the 20th century to 0.14 inches per year between 2006 and 2015. If