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# The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World Hardcover – October 24, 2017

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## Customer Reviews

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    this one might be required reading in history classes 100 years from now
  

*by B***L on Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2022*

If you read one book on our climate cancer, this is a great one. Jeff is a gifted writer, researcher, and interviewer, and all his talents combine into a highly readable, deeply thoughtful book. I was the most moved when he described pulling over to write down the name of the man in Louisiana sending out a cry for help on NPR, in order to contact him and make his story and predicament known. His interview with Obama is also worth the price of admission. (“There’s gonna be adaptations that have to be made and there are gonna be displacements.” Ah, the clarity!)Things that stood out: the number of times scientists said, about recent events, things like “we couldn’t have predicted this” - it makes me wonder what is else is coming, much sooner than most people (even scientists) realize.There were few to no mentions of sewage solutions in any city but Miami, probably because they’re the first city already dealing with it. Just sea walls. Where is the poop going to go? Is Manhattan going to engineer impervious poop shafts like the Channel Tunnel? MIT Tech Journal published an article in December 2021 stating that outside of hydrological circles, nobody is thinking about coastal water tables rising in conjunction with the tides (a fact that scientists didn’t study until ten years ago). The Maldives just spent billions on a sea wall and didn’t factor that into their project. Yikes.I was struck by how many multi-millions get spent all over the world on remediation solutions that last for just a few years before nature takes over again. If we could spend that money getting people solar panels, and buying out whole towns at more than their market value (just to create a better incentive)… sigh. The funds are there, but the psychological submission to nature’s strength is absolutely not. Some of us might just deserve what’s coming. Imperialist hubris dies hard.Finally - “When you think about big technological fixes for sea-level rise, spraying particles in the atmosphere to reflect away sunlight is the only planetary-scale fix we know of that could plausibly stop or slow sea-level rise.”I read that and thought, it’s not ultimately about sea level rise. We can live without coastal civilization. It’s about protecting the human body - we need to keep the atmosphere stable enough to still be able to grow food to eat, and we need the air to not cook our internal organs to death. That’s what this comes down to. Maybe not within my lifetime, or my kids’ lifetime as privileged Americans, but that’s the end result of carbon emissions ad nauseum.

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    Bleak Preview Into Our Future
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2022*

The author does a great job of previewing upcoming events driven by climate change - including potential reactions to those changes in the areas of technology, law and politics. Very enlightening. Since the book is 5 years old, I looked online for updates to some topics presented. THAT was alarming - it turns out that some large preventive infrastructure projects the author discussed are behind schedule and running way over budget. All as the pace of climate change seems to accelerate.

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    so informative and scary!
  

*by K***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2022*

I just finished reading this for the second time. The first time was 2 years ago and in many ways, I feel like parts of this book are already coming true. Catastrophic floods and fires worldwide. Deadly heatwaves and drought. It’s difficult to watch the news and not think of this book. If you have read books like The Sixth Extinction and The Ends of the World, you’ll like this one.

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