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

Jeff Goodell 2017

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
natural disaster climate sea level cities

Our Take

Goodell visits the places that will be underwater within this century — Miami Beach, Lagos, Rotterdam, Venice — and reports back with a calm that is more frightening than alarm would be. The science is sound, the politics are catastrophic, the real estate markets are in denial. The title is not a warning. It is a statement of fact that the powerful have decided to ignore.

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