Inundation District Film Screening
Event hosted by Environmental Studies
Tuesday, March 12, 6:00- 8:00p.m.
Mandel Center for the Humanities Room G03
About the Event
In a time of rising seas and intensifying storms, one of the world’s wealthiest, most-educated cities made a fateful decision to spend billions of dollars erecting a new district along its coast — on landfill, at sea level. Unlike other places imperiled by climate change, this neighborhood of glass towers housing some of the world’s largest companies was built well after scientists began warning of the threats, including many at its renowned universities. The city, which already has more high-tide flooding than nearly any other in the United States, called its new quarter the Innovation District. But with seas rising inexorably, and at an accelerating rate, others are calling the neighborhood by a different name: Inundation District.
Join ENVS for a special screening of the film Inundation District followed by a question and anwser session with one of the film Directors, David Abel.
This event is sponsored by Samuels Center for Community Partnerships and Civic Transformation (COMPACT), Brandeis Division of Humanities, and Brandeis Division of Social Science