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erikjshuler's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
alybooks_13's review against another edition
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Deeply troubling, deeply fascinating. Was enthralled from start to finish, and it was interesting to see how many different types of people he spoke to about climate change and rising sea levels. As stated in the book and by Neil Degrasse Tyson, “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
alyshadeshae's review against another edition
5.0
I live in Louisiana. NOLA is going under sooner or later - likely sooner based on what I've read here and elsewhere. I'm not in NOLA, but between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. My area has been flooding randomly for the past few years and it's beyond frustrating. And my house is elevated and hasn't actually flooded! I can't imagine how awful it is for those who do take on water.
This book is filled with fascinating information and I have several people I intend to recommend this to. If you haven't read it, you need to - especially if you live anywhere near the water.
This book is filled with fascinating information and I have several people I intend to recommend this to. If you haven't read it, you need to - especially if you live anywhere near the water.
ajb24's review against another edition
5.0
This book doesn't make me feel particularly optimistic about the future, but I did learn a lot and I admire all the research that went into writing this book. The last few pages that describe what a half-underwater abandoned city looks like brought back distinct memories of this one show I used to watch (I forget what it's called but I think it was on the Discovery Channel) where they envisioned and explored what an abandoned modern city would look like through CGI models (so, like, what would happen to skyscrapers and how would nature overtake it 100 years after humans have died out, stuff like that). That's not super relevant, but the memory was just so vivid after reading the last few passages of the book that I had to mention it.
A quote that really stuck out to me was on page 154 when he was explaining a complex proposal on how to save the Lower Manhattan coastline. He writes:
I think the "we will have to live differently in the future" was so powerful to me because it's something I imagine all the time- a world drastically different from what we know now, where social structures and geopolitical arrangements and everything else we take for granted is nonexistent (haha thanks dystopian novels). ANYway, I think that quote makes all these imaginary scenarios I invent in my head become more "real" in the sense that it's possible. And almost more than possible, it will happen. So that's scary.
I mean, another quote that stands out to me is actually one of the featured reviews on the back of the book by Jennifer Senior. She says the book is "a powerful reminder that we can bury our heads in the sand about climate change for only so long before the sand itself disappears". That haunts me because it echoes the "we'll have to live differently in the future" sentiment and uh...yeah. We're all doomed that's my consensus.
A quote that really stuck out to me was on page 154 when he was explaining a complex proposal on how to save the Lower Manhattan coastline. He writes:
Projects like this are nuanced and complex and expensive, making them difficult to sell as a quick fix. And they require people to acknowledge that the world is changing fast and that they will have to live differently in the future"
I think the "we will have to live differently in the future" was so powerful to me because it's something I imagine all the time- a world drastically different from what we know now, where social structures and geopolitical arrangements and everything else we take for granted is nonexistent (haha thanks dystopian novels). ANYway, I think that quote makes all these imaginary scenarios I invent in my head become more "real" in the sense that it's possible. And almost more than possible, it will happen. So that's scary.
I mean, another quote that stands out to me is actually one of the featured reviews on the back of the book by Jennifer Senior. She says the book is "a powerful reminder that we can bury our heads in the sand about climate change for only so long before the sand itself disappears". That haunts me because it echoes the "we'll have to live differently in the future" sentiment and uh...yeah. We're all doomed that's my consensus.
carolyn1504's review against another edition
5.0
It is hard to imagine a more researched and detailed book about the impacts of rising sea levels. Goodell explores in depth how communities around the world have already been affected, the likely scenarios which lie ahead, and how individuals and governments are dealing with, ignoring or denying the inevitable catastrophes which lie ahead.
silversparkles50's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
stevenyenzer's review against another edition
4.0
Fascinating and frightening trip around the world to see the ways in which people are dealing (and not dealing) with rising sea levels.