Climate Change

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Many cities are taking the threat of rising sea levels very seriously, CNN's Jeff Yang says. But how do you deal with it and get things done? "It's going to require thinking about things like retreat," he says.Yang: I don't meet that many deniers anymore. You have to be particularly deluded or blind to the world to not see that"

While the world’s leaders are meeting at COP27 to discuss climate change, Antarctica’s massive Thwaites Glacier is melting. The world’s coastlines face catastrophic consequences. Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell went to see it with his own eyes.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited by Matt Collette and Sean Rameswaram, who also hosted.

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