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4.31 AVERAGE
4.31 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
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climate change is scary, but what’s even scarier is our country’s systemic lack of altruism and affordable housing.
I have never felt more grateful to live near the Great Lakes…but the Great Lakes won’t even save us when it comes down to it!
I have never felt more grateful to live near the Great Lakes…but the Great Lakes won’t even save us when it comes down to it!
informative
reflective
slow-paced
informative
Super eye opening. Really engaging read that walks through the effects of climate change across the US through individuals experiences. Totally recommend
informative
slow-paced
Important topic. Provided a good survey/overview of different examples of climate displacement already going on. I found the writing to be engaging and accessible.
informative
medium-paced
"Just because there won't be a managed retreat doesn't mean there won't be a retreat."
A short but absolutely necessary read. This book gets to the heart of one of the issues I find most challenging to bring up with people: the inevitability that many currently-habitable places on Earth will, at some point, have to be abandoned. Whether it's letting the forever droughts and deserts of the southwest reclaim Phoenix, or accepting Miami and New York City's slow collapse into the sea, at some point in the next century or two we will have to seriously reckon with what is feasible to save. I am constantly torn between the utmost sympathy for people who refuse to retreat - I don't know if I would be strong enough to completely abandon my home city to desolation - but at what point will the outrageous costs of elevating roads, levees, and skyscrapers become truly unsustainable? The stories told in this book are about human connection, our place attachments, how deeply we love the places that define us. If I can sum up my praise of this book's writing in a sentence, it's that it makes home insurance premiums infinitely more interesting than they sound.
A short but absolutely necessary read. This book gets to the heart of one of the issues I find most challenging to bring up with people: the inevitability that many currently-habitable places on Earth will, at some point, have to be abandoned. Whether it's letting the forever droughts and deserts of the southwest reclaim Phoenix, or accepting Miami and New York City's slow collapse into the sea, at some point in the next century or two we will have to seriously reckon with what is feasible to save. I am constantly torn between the utmost sympathy for people who refuse to retreat - I don't know if I would be strong enough to completely abandon my home city to desolation - but at what point will the outrageous costs of elevating roads, levees, and skyscrapers become truly unsustainable? The stories told in this book are about human connection, our place attachments, how deeply we love the places that define us. If I can sum up my praise of this book's writing in a sentence, it's that it makes home insurance premiums infinitely more interesting than they sound.
challenging
hopeful
informative
sad
medium-paced