| THE WATER WILL COME Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World Jeff Goodell Boston: Little, Brown & Company, November 2017 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-316-26024-4 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-316-26024-X | 340pp. | HC/BWI | $28.00 | |
| Page 13: | "Also gone will be the beach where you first kissed your boyfriend; the mangrove forests in Bangladesh where Bengali tigers thrive..." |
| Typo: S/B "Bengal". |
| Page 35: | "The story of her sending orange blossoms in 1896 to Flagler, who had a house in Palm Beach, and persuade him to extend his railroad from Palm Beach to Miami is the founding myth of the city." |
| Verb tense: S/B "persuading". |
| Page 50: | "The melt of 2012 attracted international media attention, and a YouTube video of a tractor being washed down a river swollen with meltwater in Kangerlussuaq, attracted millions of viewers." |
| Extra comma: S/B "in Kangerlussuaq attracted". |
| Page 63: | "One recent study, between 1950 and 2009, showed that the seas north of Cape Hatteras rose three to four times faster than the global average." |
| Misordered phrase: S/B "study showed that, between 1950 and 2009,". |
| Page 67: | The top paragraph |
| There's no mention of the resulting increase in warming due to positive feedback. |
| Page 90: | "Thanks in part to the work of people like Mundy, one of the most important bird estuaries on the East Coast and a spawning ground for horseshoe crabs is making a comeback." |
| Number error: S/B "are". ??? |
| Page 163: | "As if she were suggesting that Miami airport—which is lying in a particularly low-lying area of Miami-Dade County and floods regularly—had already been reclaimed by the sea. How subversive!" |
| Or submersive? |
| Page 196: | "At one radar installation, forty feet of shoreline has been lost..." |
| Number error: S/B "have". |
| Page 230: | "While the notion of giving people better places to livr is admirable, the government of Lagos does nothing to help people in these communities after they have been evited." |
| Typo: S/B "evicted". |
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