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'Sea Level Rise In Mark Hertsgaard's Hot'

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In Mark Hertsgaard’s novel Hot, on pages 34-38, in the section titled “We Have to Accept That There Will Be Losses”, Hertsgaard expresses his fears about the sea levels rising and the effects it will have on his daughter, Chiara’s life. His fears came after he watched Will Travis, the executive director of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, deliver a speech about climate change, most importantly about the sea level rise. Travis noted that by the year 2100, the sea level would rise three feet. Hertsgaard was intrigued that such an influential public official was committed with sea level rise. After Travis’s speech, Hertsgaard started to observe his town and examine how that three feet of sea level rise would affect
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