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4.31 AVERAGE
4.31 AVERAGE
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This was fantastic and I’m so glad I read it. This was a great audiobook experience specifically—it was so easy to follow and well organized. I don’t know why, but this doesn’t *quite* feel like a 5 star but I can’t put my finger on why 🤷🏼♀️
Anxiety inducing, especially as I look into buying a house, but a good and important read.
Such a great and sad book clearly outlining how reckless development over centuries can and will all come to a head at some point.
Well written and easily accessible.
Well written and easily accessible.
challenging
informative
fast-paced
The personal narratives in this non fiction made this book fly by. It’s so important to give a face to the people affected by flood, fires, drought, etc. This book also shows why the answer cannot be (and isn’t as simple as) “buy more insurance” or “why didn’t they have the right insurance?”.
What's crazy is I have seen, and continue to see plenty more examples of displacement all around me.
It is very real, and unstoppable. Unfortunately, since this book came out I personally don't feel we have made much progress to prepare for these disasters and their reverberations in our communities.
Very awesome read, extremely enlightening, and totally worth the read/listen.
"The world is already being remade, but it's future shape is far from set in stone."
It is very real, and unstoppable. Unfortunately, since this book came out I personally don't feel we have made much progress to prepare for these disasters and their reverberations in our communities.
Very awesome read, extremely enlightening, and totally worth the read/listen.
"The world is already being remade, but it's future shape is far from set in stone."
So good and sooooo concerning for the future of housing and our country. Some of the chapters felt a little repetitive, since so much of it concerned flooding, but I understand that Bittle was also drawing a distinction between progressive, inevitable flooding like in Norfolk and sudden, catastrophic flooding like in the Keys. The Arizona chapter was scary to me, since I grew up in California and everyone seems to be under constant threat of a drought there. Well-researched stories for sure!
Human, humane, thought-provoking. But for real, I need an adult to come stop me from reading any more climate doom literature. Not recommended if you're already steeped in existential dread (and really, who isn't these days?)
Extremely sad, really hard to get through with everything going on this past week. Makes a strong case against homeownership and for moving to Wisconsin. Not sure about the suggestion at the end that universal vouchers will allow renters to live wherever they want after natural disasters, but his heart was in the right place
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced