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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

Jeff Goodell (Goodreads Author)

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What if Atlantis wasn't a myth but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages. With each crack in the great ...more

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Jun 30, 2019 carol. rated it really liked it

Recommends it for: everyone, particularly young people, Floridians, coasties and Trumpsters

Shelves: end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it, science, non-fiction

For too long the national climate debate has centered on "is it real?" and "is it man-made?" How this occurred is likely the subject of another book, but what Goodell has done here is expose how thousands of powerful people (but only thousands! They need support!) are currently working to mitigate the effects of climate change while simultaneously reassuring the public there is absolutely no need to panic or change. Ah, politics. Can you inspire change without fear?

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Aug 25, 2018 Julie Christine rated it it was amazing

Shelves: best-of-2018, read-2018, social-political-commentary

I read The Water Will Come under hazy yellow skies, with the scent of woodsmoke hanging heavy in hot air, my car dusted with a light coating of ash. It took effort to breathe, the air thick and sickly. Forest fires all around me: searing British Columbia to the north, racing through the Cascades Mountains to the east, Olympics to the west, Oregon to the south.

We endure damp and dreary winters for the glory that is summer in the Pacific Northwest; months of blue skies, gentle warmth and sunshine I read The Water Will Come under hazy yellow skies, with the scent of woodsmoke hanging heavy in hot air, my car dusted with a light coating of ash. It took effort to breathe, the air thick and sickly. Forest fires all around me: searing British Columbia to the north, racing through the Cascades Mountains to the east, Olympics to the west, Oregon to the south.

We endure damp and dreary winters for the glory that is summer in the Pacific Northwest; months of blue skies, gentle warmth and sunshine. But I fear this is the new norm for summers in this pristine place of sea and mountains. The world is on fire and at the same time, sinking fast into the sea. And we're not even close to being ready.

Sea-level rise is one of the central facts of our time, as real as gravity. It will reshape our world in ways most of us can only dimly imagine.

What do forest fires in the West have to do with melting ice sheets and rising oceans? I hadn't put the two together until reading this urgent, devastating, vital read.

A backpacker’s campfire (in the Western United States) throws out a spark, a tree ignites, and soon the mountainside is burning and the soot is drifting up, some of it lifted into the jet stream and settling into Greenland, darkening the snow and accelerating the transformation of ice into water, which runs down into the North Atlantic and eventually into Miami, Shanghai, New York, Venice, Mumbai, Lagos, and deeper still.

Goodell, a longtime editor for Rolling Stone, concentrates much of his narrative in Miami and Miami Beach, exposing the folly and corruption that built these sand castle communities, the naïvete and stupidity and ostrich-head-burying that will eventually wash them away. But Goodell also takes us to Manhattan and the Jersey Shore to view the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy (2012), the heartbreaking plunge of Venice, the water ghettos of Lagos, and the immediate peril in the Marshall Islands, Alaska, and Greenland.

As intensively studied as global warming and climate change have been in recent years, not even the most dire predictions anticipated the rate at which the seas are rising. The 2015 Paris Agreement was predicated on studies that assumed the sea would rise, at the most three feet by 2100. Goodell introduces us to the current models that indicate the rise may be well over SIX feet. We're going down, quite literally.

For anyone living in Miami Beach or South Brooklyn or Boston’s Back Bay or any other low-lying coastal neighborhood the difference between three feet of sea level rise by 2100 and six feet is the difference between a wet but livable city and a submerged city.

What can we do? We have two choices: work immediately toward slowing the temperature rise of our air by ending our use of and reliance on fossil fuels, which we can replace with clean, renewable sources of energy: wind and solar. This is happening, of course, on a small scale, but hardly at the rate needed to slow the rise of temperatures and seas. And with a Congress and White House in denial about climate change, the United States is complicit in making this planet more unsustainable by the minute.

The other tact is to adapt. Goodell highlights several innovative and not a few harebrained ideas to live with or withstand rising seas or the flooding that accompanies hurricanes and typhoons. Of course, millions around the world live in communities perched on the edge of disaster, and not just the entitled who claim South Beach; from Bangladesh to Boston, poor communities are vulnerable to the inevitable. Climate change leads directly to conflict and war-Syria is the most immediate example. The International Organization for Migration estimates there will be 200 million climate refugees by 2050.

I couldn't put this down, as upsetting a read as it is. Goodell made the facts accessible and fascinating- he is as superb a storyteller as he is insightful a journalist. This is essential reading.

I'm grateful for today's rain, not the least for those battling these fires on the front line. But the rain can't wash away the truth. We're going down, quite literally.

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Nov 07, 2017 Bam cooks the books ;-) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: environment-nature, 2017-netgalley, non-fiction, 2017-reads

The water will come. Anyone who has ever lived near water knows that water will find its way in if it has a mind to. This book is largely about rising sea levels caused by climate change and melting glaciers and its impact on our society, for the truth is our climate is changing and causing unusual weather patterns and problems around the world.

Personal experiences: Our midwest home has been flooded twice by creek water in the last ten years after torrential rain storms. And while we were in Ar The water will come. Anyone who has ever lived near water knows that water will find its way in if it has a mind to. This book is largely about rising sea levels caused by climate change and melting glaciers and its impact on our society, for the truth is our climate is changing and causing unusual weather patterns and problems around the world.

Personal experiences: Our midwest home has been flooded twice by creek water in the last ten years after torrential rain storms. And while we were in Aruba recently, which has a desert climate, the area was hit by a thunderstorm that dumped three inches of rain in about an hour, blowing the manhole covers off sewers and flooding the streets with a foot of water. The local residents were amazed--they NEVER get rains like that.

Whatever happened to nice, gentle, soaking rains? Do you know what it's like to be scared when it rains? Even as a child growing up in suburban Detroit, I remember sitting on the upper steps of our basement watching sewer water backing up and wondering how high it would come. That problem was later solved by a twelve-town drain system but the frightening memories still linger.

The National Flood Insurance Program is $23 billion in debt. Who is paying for flood insurance claims? The taxpayer, of course. We are building where we shouldn't be. We are building in floodplains, on reclaimed swamps, on the oceanfronts even though higher sea levels are being predicted and hurricanes happen frequently.

Jeff Goodell is a journalist who has interviewed scientists, climate experts, city planners, politicians, flood victims, architects, geo-engineers, etc. to further his understanding of what the situation is and what might be done to solve the problems. For the water will come.

"If we want to minimize the impact of sea-level rise in the next century, here's how we do it: stop burning fossil fuels and move to higher ground. We wouldn't even have to stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow--if we did it by 2050, that would be good enough. It wouldn't entirely halt sea-level rise, but it would avoid the worst of it."

Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for providing me with an arc of this important new book for an honest review. ...more

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Feb 02, 2018 Nancy rated it it was amazing

Jeff Goodell traveled the world to report on how rising sea levels are impacting human society across the globe. His new book The Water Will Come takes readers to shrinking Alaskan glaciers with President Obama and into the flood-prone homes of impoverished people living in Lagos, Nigeria.

"By that time, I'll be dead, so what does it matter?" Quote from a Florida real estate developer, The Water Will Come

I long wondered how bad it would get before people broke down and changed how we live and do Jeff Goodell traveled the world to report on how rising sea levels are impacting human society across the globe. His new book The Water Will Come takes readers to shrinking Alaskan glaciers with President Obama and into the flood-prone homes of impoverished people living in Lagos, Nigeria.

"By that time, I'll be dead, so what does it matter?" Quote from a Florida real estate developer, The Water Will Come

I long wondered how bad it would get before people broke down and changed how we live and do things. I consider how Americans gave up comforts during WWII rationing, all pulling together for a great cause we all believed in.

I don't see that happening today.

As Goodell points out, "fossil fuel empire" Koch industries money has swayed government. Private citizens can recycle and lower the heat and ride bicycles but the impact is small. As long as governments are more worried about big business than national security endangered by climate change we can't alter what is coming.

What? you ask; national security?

Well, consider that military bases across the nation and world are located in areas that WILL FLOOD. Like the Norfolk Naval Base, the Langley Air Force Base, and NASA's Wallops Flight Facility! Along with the financial district of New York City and expensive Florida beach front homes, we will be losing the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in the Marshall Islands, where 12,000 Americans operate space weapons programs and track NASA research.

So if the loss of Arctic ice and habitat and the Inuit way of life doesn't concern you, perhaps this information will.

So many issues are raised in the book. Consider: We have not established how to deal with climate change refugees. Where are these people going to go? Countries in Europe, along with the U.S., are closing borders--the same countries whose fossil energy use is the primary cause of climate change behind rising sea levels! What is their responsibility?

There are a lot of ideas of how to deal with rising sea levels, including the building of walls and raising cities. It seems, though, that people are more interested in coping with the change than addressing the root cause of climate change. We just don't want to give up fossil fuels.

The book is highly readable for the general public. Although the cover photo made me think of an action disaster movie, the books is a well-researched presentation of "fact, science, and first-person, on-the-ground journalism."

I received a free book from the publisher through Goodreads.
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Sep 02, 2018 Lorna rated it really liked it

Shelves: florida, new-york, political-history, non-fiction, miami, social-history, environmental-issues

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World was a riveting look at global warming by journalist Jeff Goodell and its manifestations throughout the world, primarily focusing on Miami, New York City, New Orleans, and Venice as well as many other countries, including the Marshall Islands. Goodell not only discusses the effects of global warming but also the rapidly rising seal levels and higher and higher tides as well as the effects of rising temperatu ...more

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Apr 26, 2019 Diane S ☔ rated it really liked it

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Thoughts soon.

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Nov 27, 2017 Stephen Selbst rated it it was ok

This is a journalist's book posing as serious writing. The potential for coastal flooding caused by rapidly rising sea levels is genuine and acute.This is a superficial look at the problem, unnecessarily padded with character sketches of some of the politicians, engineers, scientists and activists involved. Their lives may be more or less interesting, but their individual stories are nearly irrelevant to the issues the book half-heartedly addresses. This is a topic worthy of a more serious and s ...more

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Nov 25, 2017 William Liggett rated it it was amazing

I just returned from a Christmas break in the South Bay part of Los Angeles where multimillion-dollar houses have been built along the strand next to the beach. I was curious why no one seems to be concerned about sea level rise. On the East Coast, and southern Florida in particular, the sea is already encroaching with every storm and high tide.

Jeff Goodell's book, The Water Will Come, provides some answers. He describes how many parts of Florida were swamplands before they were drained and sol ...more

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Oct 26, 2017 Bandit rated it really liked it · review of another edition

It's October and in theory I should be reading something scary. Then again, this is pretty scary. Jeff Goodell, a journalist and a climate expert, creates a hauntingly vivid picture of a very wet world to come. Traveling the world, visiting coastal cities across the globe that can potentially become the next Atlantis, he talks to experts and locals to gain a well rounded perspective of the threats they are facing and the realities of their lives. This isn't a mere alarmist reporting, it's a thor ...more

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Sep 25, 2018 Jamie rated it really liked it

Shelves: science, societies

We are so screwed. Disaster is coming, and we are just going to sit here until it hits, then ask why we weren’t prepared. No one knows how much the seas will rise by 2100: three feet, six, fifteen? There are scientists supporting all of those numbers. Any solution, even for the lowest estimate, will be horrendously expensive, and the uncertainty of the scope of the problem, combined with the lack of political foresight and courage, the next-election-only time horizon, and the aversion to raising We are so screwed. Disaster is coming, and we are just going to sit here until it hits, then ask why we weren’t prepared. No one knows how much the seas will rise by 2100: three feet, six, fifteen? There are scientists supporting all of those numbers. Any solution, even for the lowest estimate, will be horrendously expensive, and the uncertainty of the scope of the problem, combined with the lack of political foresight and courage, the next-election-only time horizon, and the aversion to raising taxes to pay for solutions, means nothing will get done. Cities will flood, drinking water will be contaminated, and the costs for remediation will be so high, with so many places needing aid, that the government will have no choice but to leave people to deal with their problems on their own. On top of that, no one knows how many climate refugees there will be by mid century, but 200 million seems to be a popular guess.

Each chapter of the book focuses on a specific place, and uses it to illuminate the larger issues at stake. Miami is sinking in seawater and sewage; New York is increasingly vulnerable to another storm like 2012’s Sandy; Venice is also sinking, with a huge pork barrel project underway that is doing little but lining the pockets of corrupt politicians and contractors; many Pacific islands face the existential threat of vanishing altogether; Lagos, Nigeria, is building a three square mile artificial island off the coast, so at least the wealthy will have a place to go. Only in the Netherlands, where they have lived with high water and low land for a very long time, do they seem to have a realistic grasp of the problem, and they understand that their options are limited, and they can’t address everything. Back to the United States, where even in the face of unmistakable evidence of impending disaster, denial is the primary response, along with a childlike belief that technology will save us. Republican Congressmen and mayors, knowing well their political base, continue to deny that there is any problem at all. As the author succinctly puts it, people who are concerned about climate change probably didn’t vote for Trump anyway.

This is going to be bad. It is going to be much, much worse that even those who accept rising waters believe. War, disease, political unrest, mass migrations, economic collapse, and more. We are so screwed. ...more

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Jun 03, 2018 Emma Sea rated it it was amazing

A very easy read that focuses on the upcoming consequences of sea level rise and does not attempt to convince with hard science. If you're not convinced now, no book will do it. Many elegant and poignant parts that wrenched my soul. ...more

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Apr 21, 2019 Tyler J Gray rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction, 2010s, own, science, nature, own-physical

Very readable, well written, and packed with information. It shows how much work went into making this book and making sure nothing was left out, while making it accessible at the same time.

It's horrifying what is happening to our planet. People are already suffering. Evidence for climate change is everywhere, just open your eyes. This book will show you. I already believed in climate change and knew it's a problem, but I had no idea just how much. How places like Miami, Nigeria, Venice, are str ...more

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Apr 05, 2019 Lena rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, nonfiction

From Obama to Marshal Island Royalty, the villains and heroes of Miami, Dutch architects and die hard New Jersey coastal residents, Goodell has gathered the screaming voices of the climate change zeitgeist.

Well organized, informative, and entertaining - this is a must read. ...more

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Mar 11, 2019 Silvana rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: kindle-google, mine-mine-mine, reading-with-friends, z-nonfic-2019-challenge, nonfiction

A cross between eye-opening and frightening. I know about the sea water rising but it has not really clicked yet, all the urgency. The book, which is very easy to read, with examples of what people (including politicians, scientists, military, urban planners) all over the world are doing (or not) about this incoming apocalypse. Would love to have more Southern representation though.

Anyway, the science stuff is easy to digest so no worries about that part. What worries me is that even during the ...more

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Jun 11, 2018 Olia Brightside rated it it was ok

Shelves: green, business

I didn't like this book for a number of reasons. Even though it did offer some interesting facts and food for thought like contaminated water and how it affects Miami citizens, the Architectural problem of Venice and floating houses of Laos as a solution for poor drowning regions, I fond the style and structure of the book incredibly BORING, weird and underdeveloped. Seriously, when I bought this book I thought to myself" Yes! This is something really epic! Like a dystopian tragedy but based on ...more

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Jul 24, 2019 Melora rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-ish

This is, as you'd expect, a pretty discouraging book. Goodell does keep it interesting, covering sea rise related issues from a variety of angles and interviewing experts in coastal cities on topics ranging from sea rise resistant architecture, septic tank related problems, challenges facing military bases and installations, flood insurance and the obligations of governments to those who rebuild in high risk areas, etc. Occasionally he suggests small areas of hopefulness, such as architects with ...more

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Nov 03, 2017 Jess rated it liked it

Shelves: 2017, arcs

Thanks to Little, Brown and Company via NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. It has not influenced my thoughts or opinions about this book.

Throughout this book, Goodell explores geographic regions and innovative technologies to see what can be done to reduce the impact of rising water. Ultimately, there are some questions that emerge:

- How can we depoliticize climate change and show the real and impending impact on human civilization?
- How will governments address buy-outs ...more

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Apr 24, 2018 Amanda Van Parys rated it really liked it

Shelves: nonfiction, read-harder-challenge-2018, 2018

Well, that was scary. As a person who lives in FL and within 5 miles of the shore, this is horrifying. During the hurricane season of 2017, I was talking to my dad after Irma barely missed a direct hit on us in the Tampa Bay area saying some of the exact things outlined in this book, and I quote: "FL is f*cked, we need to get out of here."

And I'm completely fine leaving the godforsaken land of FL, in fact, I want to. But I'll tell you one thing, it's hard to just pack up your life and move away ...more

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Nov 23, 2017 Radiantflux rated it it was ok

Shelves: ebook, environmentalism-and-politics

67th book for 2017.

A disappointingly superficial account of an important topic.

Each chapter seems to involve Goodell meeting some important person who isn't aware/doesn't care about sea-level rise, and at some point Goodell will be wading through water at some high-tide here or there (New York, Miami, Venice etc). There was way too much emphasis on Miami and not enough of a global perspective.

If you haven't read any other book on global warming this book would be OK, but there are much better ...more

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Aug 20, 2018 Emily marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Shelves: science

The Austin Public Library just recommended this to me so I am leaning into my tinfoil hat

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Oct 03, 2018 Book rated it really liked it

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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell

“The Water Will Come” is a very good book that realistically depicts the future we are creating for our children and grandchildren. Contributing editor at Rolling Stone and the author of five books including the award-winning Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate takes the reader on a dive into the rising water levels of our planet. This insightful 332-page book includes the following twelve ...more

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Jan 14, 2020 Andreas rated it really liked it

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Just invest the 5o minutes of Goodall's presentation covering and updating the essentials of this book.

The book itself doesn't give too many additional insights, as the elaboration stays more on the surface. This is certainly more in essay style than a scientific rendering (which I didn't expect). But most often, I felt detached by the author's descriptions of interview partner's clothing or facial expression. I bought the hardcover edition, because I saw that there are numerous graphs and pict ...more

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Jan 08, 2020 Michael rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: aa-unitedstateslit, aa-italylit, science, aaa-favornonfiction, aa-europelit, all-five-star, nonfiction, aa-nigerialit, aa-netherlandslit, zz2017

080120: every year in february i visit my mom’s hometown of waimea, kauai, where she and dad now have a condo. on the beach. so far we have had no tsunamis or hurricanes to wipe out the town, though the last two hurricanes did some damage. this is nothing compared to the future in this book, for the town is mostly less than two metres above sea level... even in the kindest projected rise it will be gone in hundred years or less...

i also recognize the desire for people who want to stay in low-lyi ...more

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Jun 28, 2019 Camelia Rose rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science, ecology, america-themed, audio

The Water Will Come is a heavy book to read. When I finally put it down, France is being hit by the worst heat wave in recorded history and Greenland ice sheet is facing yet another big year of melting.

The subtitle says "Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World", but the focus is the first half: rising seas and sinking cities. 70% of the book talks only about American cities and politics, which is a little disappointing.

Main cities and places covered in the book:
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May 14, 2018 Mary rated it really liked it

Shelves: science, environment

Goodell's book The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World should convince those climate change nay sayers that we all need to be concerned about rising seas as the result of melting glaciers.

What makes Goodell's book interesting is the amount of time and travel that he has invested in investigating his facts. He has spoken to many experts in the fields of building, weather, geology, and climate. He has also visited with people living in the areas m ...more

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Apr 21, 2019 Rob rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Started well, with a real feel of depth and importance. Gradually segued into character sketches and mood pieces betraying it's journalistic origins. I would have liked a little more on the knock on effects of sea level rise, something to open the eyes of people who don't live on the coast and think it won't affect them.
A good read with scary clarity in places, but could have been so much more. ...more

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Mar 29, 2019 Lance rated it really liked it

Shelves: politics, nf-books-read-2019, audiobook, history, buddy-reads, own-a-copy

Enjoyed this one a lot more than I thought I would - talks about a terrifying subject without getting preachy or panicky, but at the same time talks with urgency about what needs to be addressed now.

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Dec 08, 2019 Michelle Curie rated it liked it

Shelves: nonfiction, science

This book starts out with a post-apocalyptic vision of what our world would be like if we let the water levels rise further. Let me tell you one thing: it's not looking good.

Jeff Goodell is a long-time contributor to the Rolling Stones magazine and has been writing about environmental issues for a while now. In The Water Will Come he focusses on the manifestations of the rising seas and what that means for the cities and civilisations that it will affect.

He's looking at cities like Miami, New ...more

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Apr 02, 2018 Leahbh rated it really liked it

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So disturbing. He spells it all out using a few examples: Miami, Greater NY area, Venice, Lagos. Seasteading by the uber rich - I keep wondering what is the End Game for these oligarchs who do nothing to promote solutions for the earth's problems and in fact, actively work against those who are trying to address climate change and environmental justice. What do they think will happen as seas rise, coastlines are inundated and become uninhabitable and millions (billions?) of climate refugees are ...more

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Aug 14, 2017 Reading Reindeer 2021 On Proxima Centauri rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Review: THE WATER WILL COME by Jeff Goodell

An articulate and thoroughly-considered explication of sea level rise, THE WATER WILL COME is scientific journalism as it ought to be, explaining science, geological history and engineering in an understandable fashion. Mr. Goodell never resorts to scare tactics; his understated and factual approach to climate change, global warming, melting of ice sheets, and consequent inescapable rise of sea level is frightening in itself, and should serve as a wake- ...more

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Jeff Goodell's latest book The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World was published by Little, Brown in 2017. It was picked as one of the 50 best non-fiction books of the year by The Washington Post as well as a New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2017.

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