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Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza
lbeckett's review
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Insightful book, a little chatty which isn’t my favorite for nonfiction but lightens the topic and helps portray one challenge of climate change: why people stay.
hotdogbun's review
4.0
This book was good, not a fun topic to read about but important and informative. I felt like I was able to learn a lot more about global warming and its impact through reading this book. It was interesting and covered many different topics related to climate change, many that I hadn’t thought about previously. It’s scary to think about how things will be in the future. It’s sad and this book brought up an all too familiar helpless feeling. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book.
2000s's review
Writing style was trying to be funny but came off as super dry. Also had a doomsday mentality that didn't offer helpful solutions IMO, or even delve into the reasons why Miami is worth saving besides keeping the real estate market going and BS like that.
nuhafariha's review
3.0
Thank you to Perseus Books & NetGalley for the Advanced Reader's Copy!
Available July 14th 2020
Like his beloved sprawling city, Mario Alejandro Ariza's "Disposable City" covers a lot of ground. With everything from immigration reform and American Indian/American Native activism to glitzy parks and million dollar housing markets, Ariza tries to show us the tangible and very real threat of climate change. In both personal encounters and research, Ariza puts together an intricate and foreboding warning. Even for a reader like me, who is not from Florida and doesn't know a lot about climate change, Ariza's text was engaging and educational. Personally, I enjoyed the he cleverly juxtapositions contrasting viewpoints, like disucssing the preservation of the Everglades from a Native perspective and from the Army perspective. Towards the end, I found myself nodding off a bit, only because the information can become repetitive and without clear, practical solutions, it can frustrating. But perhaps that's the start of another book from this author.
Available July 14th 2020
Like his beloved sprawling city, Mario Alejandro Ariza's "Disposable City" covers a lot of ground. With everything from immigration reform and American Indian/American Native activism to glitzy parks and million dollar housing markets, Ariza tries to show us the tangible and very real threat of climate change. In both personal encounters and research, Ariza puts together an intricate and foreboding warning. Even for a reader like me, who is not from Florida and doesn't know a lot about climate change, Ariza's text was engaging and educational. Personally, I enjoyed the he cleverly juxtapositions contrasting viewpoints, like disucssing the preservation of the Everglades from a Native perspective and from the Army perspective. Towards the end, I found myself nodding off a bit, only because the information can become repetitive and without clear, practical solutions, it can frustrating. But perhaps that's the start of another book from this author.