Fall 2024 Economic Outlook: Climate Adaptation

HYBRID: Executive Dining Room (Gold Hall), UCLA Anderson School and Online 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles

The economy keeps churning along but so does climate change. These two forces are important for future economic growth, consumption and investment growth. Rosanna Xia, an environmental reporter at the Los Angeles Times, will introduce her award-winning book on sea level rise, California Against the Sea, and share insights that she has gathered in the...

Screening of Acid Forest

Hammer Museum

Set in the Curonian Spit, a scenic peninsula in Lithuania edged by the Baltic Sea and a freshwater lagoon, this satiric documentary follows tourists who flock to the region despite the dying, leafless trees of its ancient forest now overtaken by thousands of cormorant birds and their acid-fortified feces. The film observes the human species...