Hope to Embrace Radical Uncertainty in Climate Change

Jan Jorrit Hasselaar

doi:10.2307/j.ctv16t6ms2.8

Hope to Embrace Radical Uncertainty in Climate Change

Jan Jorrit Hasselaar

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No one saw it coming, but suddenly it was there, climate change, expressed in a three years drought in Cape Town, South Africa. It is only with hindsight that weather watchers can pin a start-date to the drought: June 2015. ‘Between then and June 2018, the rainfall varied between fifty and seventy percent of the long-term average.’¹ The drought peaked in January 2018. Then it looked as if there was only three months’ water supply left. Headlines around the world warned that Cape Town might become one of the first cities globally to run out of water. If dam levels...

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Fullness of Life and Justice for All
Editors	Ellen Van Stichel, Manuela Kalsky
Publisher	ATF Press
Pages	51-68
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781925679427, 9781925679434
ISBN (Print)	9781925679403, 9781925679410
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv16t6ms2.8
Publication status	Published - 2020

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