Stephen Porder and Baylor Fox-Kemper

Porder is the Acacia Professor of Ecology, Evolutionary and Organismal Biology and the Associate Provost for Sustainability at Brown University. He is the author of Elemental: Five elements that changed Earth’s past and will shape our future, and the founder of Possibly, a podcast about sustainability science broadcast on public radio stations across the country. Fox-Kemper is a Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. He is a coordinating lead author of the chapter “Ocean, cryosphere, and sea level change” of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report

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