Questioning Climate Resilience with Marjahn Finlayson

​"Resilience" is a buzzword in the climate space, more and more, adaptation and mitigation prove insufficient as we experience more devastating climate disasters at higher frequencies than ever before. We'll be in conversation with Marjahn Finlayson about the problem with the dominant framings of resilience, particularly for The Bahamas, the Caribbean, and Small Island Developing States. We'll get into climate financing, false solutions, the responsibility of individuals to be smarter, better, more conscious consumers, and the functions and benefits of community.

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​Marjahn Finalayson is a climate change scientist, educator, and activist. She started in science as a tropical cyclone (hurricane) watcher, trying to figure out how climate change will affect these phenomena since she is a native of The Bahamas. Through her platform, ClimateEdu Bahamas, she runs the local climate impact service, the Fin Forecast, and the social sustainability collective, DAPS (Development. Advancement. Preservation. Sustainability). She earned her undergraduate degree in Earth and Environmental Science at Wesleyan University and her Master's in Research in Climate & Atmospheric Science at the University of Leeds. She is a PhD Candidate at the University of Bologna, affiliated with the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy. Her research is on estimating and understanding the regional ocean heat content changes.