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The Water Will Come
Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
In The Water Will Come, environmental journalist Jeff Goodell investigates how rising seas will alter coastlines, cities, economies, and patterns of human settlement. Traveling from Miami and New York to Venice, Lagos, the Netherlands, the Marshall Islands, and vulnerable military installations, he connects climate science with the decisions being made by engineers, politicians, property owners, and residents. The book explains how warming water and melting land ice raise sea levels, but its principal concern is social: what happens when roads, homes, drinking-water systems, cultural landmarks, and entire communities can no longer be defended at an acceptable cost? Goodell presents adaptation as an unavoidable process involving engineering, finance, migration, and political conflict. Published in 2017, the book is both a report from places already confronting recurrent flooding and an examination of the difficult choices that coastal societies face as the boundary between land and sea…
