There is a pronounced and unquestionable effect on water levels, due to climate change, in oceans and freshwater. These shifts in water levels are threatening lands, forcing the people who inhabit them to urgently react. 

In this panel conversation, we look at the broader impact of rising water levels on people and places; And we will highlight a few communities who are facing this threat today, such as Lennox Island First Nation, St Pierre and Miquelon and the communities in the Northwest Territories who are being relocated and washed away.

About this event's guests:

Merrell-Ann Phare (Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources / Porcupine Podcast)
Goneri Le Cozannet (BRGM - French Geological Survey)
Randy Angus (Mi'Kmaq Confederacy of PEI)
Michael Miltenberger (Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources / Former Minister of the Environment, NWT)

This event is part of TPL's On Civil Society: Climate series, a year-long programming initiative that explores the effects that climate change is having on the only habitat we have.  We are faced with radical and unknown effects on the world’s oceans, rivers, wildlife and diminishing biodiversity.  These new realities of a future world paint a sobering picture that disrupts the very idea of humankind and its interventions on the planet.

Each month we focus on a different facet of the topic, featuring some of the world’s most innovative thinkers, scientists, activists, journalists and artists. Critical and long-neglected voices offer new perspectives on where we went wrong and, perhaps, some solutions for a healthy, sustainable and equitable future for our planet.

We will offer tools to help you weigh in with your opinions and experience, but more than this, we aim to inspire in at least some of you the desire to get involved in any way that works for you: through panels, lectures, field trips and workshops, key organizations will help you see some of those working for our planet that we didn’t even know about.

November 2021 - Urbanism in a Warming Planet
February 2021 - Inequalities
March 2022 - Going, Arriving, Leaving: Borders and Trade
April 2022 - Transportation and Movement
May 2022 - Indigenous Perspectives

On Civil Society: Climate is a collaborative project sponsored by Toronto Public Library, the Consulat Général de France à Toronto et Institut Français.

TPL’s On Civil Society series is generously supported in part by Chris M. Reid.

Toronto Public Library is committed to accessibility. Please call or email us if you are Deaf or have a disability and would like to request accommodation to participate in this program. Please let us know as far in advance as possible and we will do our best to meet your request. At least three weeks’ notice is preferred. Phone 416-393-7099 or email accessibleservices@tpl.ca

Climate - Rising Waters, Vanishing Lands