The Water Will Come
Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
By Jeff Goodell
About the book
Rising seas, and what they will do to coastlines by the end of the century, are the subject of Jeff Goodell's reporting, and in a Rolling Stone cover story he predicted that Miami in its current form could be gone within the lifetimes of many people alive today. The book forecasts that hundreds of millions of people will move away from the shore, that nuclear reactors will be shut down and that great cities will be abandoned. Covering both island nations and major cities, he contends that no barrier or wall offers a simple defense. The account rests on science and on-the-ground reporting, and the publisher places it alongside The World Without Us.
John Green praised it as carefully researched and as tense as a thriller, and Elizabeth Kolbert credited Goodell with explaining rising sea levels with rigor and intelligence.
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This book has 2 recommendations
John Green (Author)
This harrowing, compulsively readable, and carefully researched book lays out in clear-eyed detail what Earth's changing climate means for us today, and what it will mean for future generations... It's a thriller in which the hero in peril is us
Elizabeth Kolbert (Author)
Jeff Goodell has taken on some of the most important issues of our time, from coal mining to geoengineering. In The Water Will Come, he explains the threat of sea level rise with characteristic rigor and intelligence. The result is at once deeply persuasive and deeply unsettling.
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