Moving to Higher Ground

Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward

By: John Englander

Narrated by: John Englander

Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

Ice on land is melting, and sea level is rising, both at astonishing rates never seen in recorded history. Are you, your property, investments, and family ready for these unprecedented changes? Read Moving to Higher Ground and…

Learn how sea levels rise (SLR) is unstoppable for many centuries, due to excess heat already stored in our oceans - and how soon our shorelines will go underwater.

Understand how disastrous SLR will profoundly affect more than 10,000 coastal communities as soon as 2050, both in the US and around the world.

What will happen where you live? How much will the water rise? And when?

Find out why extreme weather events, forest fires, and flooding share the same causes as catastrophic SLR, but weather disruptions are temporary and SLR permanent. Devastatingly so.

Discover what industries and properties will feel the greatest, and earliest, impacts. Learn what all planners and coastal property owners need to know now to urgently begin to move and adapt.

Examine the unique problems faced by the military, Infrastructure planners, architects, flood managers, policy planners, banks, insurance companies, and real estate businesses. And some unique solutions.

Find out how and why government policy makers have been completely ineffective delivering any successful strategy for climate change and sea level rise.

Answer the questions: What should we do now? And what does the path forward look like?

In time of great financial and environmental peril, who will lead us? Prepare to be surprised at the answer.

John Englander is a renowned oceanographer and expert on climate change and sea level rise. His best-selling first book, High Tide on Main Street, was published in 2012.

©2021 John Englander (P)2021 John Englander

It's Physically Impossible to Stop Sea-level Rise

John Englander knows sea-level rise from personal experience and governments, engineering firms, and insurance companies reach out to him for his expertise. He says the IPCC sea-level estimates leave out Antarctic ice sheet melting and grossly underestimate the danger. He also says seas will rise at least a foot in the next 30 years and at least 6 to 10 feet by 2100. It cannot be stopped. He emphasizes adapting is urgent and must be done soon, but it is possible, it can be exciting, and those who do will thrive. That optimism is the beauty of this book

A Remarkable Book

John Englander has been pursuing the mysteries and consequences of sea level rise since he was a young, college student working as a scuba diving instructor. Now in his early seventies, his life’s work exploring the impact of human social and economic development on the overall environment, and the oceans in particular, is shared in Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward.

Throughout, Englander provides clear, cogent, analysis of the massive, irrevocable, sea level rise confronting us. And fortunately, he is not just a doomsday prophet. Instead, he is a passionate, pragmatic, advocate for adaptation; a hard-headed realist who offers steps for salvaging livable coastlines. He examines many options; but the best, by far, is moving to higher ground. He argues convincingly that retreat from the rising sea is not merely a desperate escape measure, but also a potential economic stimulus that may greatly benefit those willing to take the necessary risks.

I listened to the book on Audible and enjoyed Englander’s fine narration. Also, there is an excellent companion website, movingtohigherground.com, with ten Deeper Dive notes explaining complicated topics such as ice age cycles, the land ice of Antarctica and Greenland, and Geo-engineering. A downloadable PDF contains all of the book’s illustrations.

Englander is a gifted communicator/educator who, while spreading the urgent call about sea level rise, hopes others will use his materials to spur their communities to action. We should honor his wishes.

very compelling

This book has a very compelling and well documented thesis. Englander talks in layman's terms about sea level rise and its implications. I will be using this book as a reference for future clases.

A life’s work

Sober analysis of the issue. The science and a path forward. Thanks for your work.

Amazing must read book

With eyes wide open we need to move into the future ready to adapt to the new world. John’s book is an excellent first step for all of us.

One of the most important books you’ll read

I’ve studied sustainability and climate change for quite some time and this is, without a doubt, one of the clearest and easiest to understand pieces of writing I’ve come across. If you’ve heard about the rising oceans and want to understand what our planet will look like in 30 years, 100 years, read this book. If you have children and want to understand the future you are leaving them read this book. If you are feeling in denial, hopeless, dissonance, etc. about the rising tides and climate change, read this book. If you or someone you know has low lying property, read this book. Everyone READ THIS BOOK. It’s unbiased, unpolitical, and without ulterior motive.

Courage and grounded optimism Mr. Englander’s greatest gift

The continent of this book is compelling no matter whether it is read or listened to, but the audio version has a great advantage. It communicates very personally not only John Englander’s clear case but also his personal courage and grounded optimism. He provides an example of achieving an emotional “higher ground” in the face of this daunting challenge. That higher ground is perhaps the greatest gift of this audio book. Brent Winans

Wake up humans, the water is rising

Well researched and insightful book about the inevitable rise of water globally. Adaptation and ingenuity is our only viable path forward. it's a hopeful yet somber book about our near future.