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On Behalf of The Rhode Island Center for the Obsessed with the rate of sea-level rise, environmental writer Elizabeth Rush traveled extensively along the US coasts and as far afield as Bangladesh, interviewing In Rising, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York City to the Bay Area. What this book does best is bring the theoretical problem of climate change to the here and now Dimensions× × in. The Office of Library & Information Services and Ocean State Libraries have secured statewide simultaneous use of the ebook in Overdrive. Elizabeth Rush visits and reports in depth on several shoreline communities on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts that are losing the battle with climate change Our book is Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, by Elizabeth Rush. Our book is Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, by Elizabeth Rush. Book Detail: Author: Elizabeth Rush Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore looks at communities impacted by these events and how governments have or have not responded to them. Elizabeth Rush visits and reports in depth on several shoreline communities on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts that are losing the battle with climate changeRISING: Dispatches from the New American Shore. Elizabeth Rush is the author of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Weightoz. Prepared by Maureen Nagle and George Tsakraklides. The Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore By Elizabeth Rush. You can access the ebook here: Rising: Dispatches from the New American ShORE – RI Center for the Book. Cover Art. Reader's Guide. Author. In a historical moment of hurricanes, flooding, and unprecedented weather events, it is becoming increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant—and that it is changing the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways Rising is a sobering and unflinching look at the impact of rising sea levels from the front lines--those coastal communities dealing with hurricanes, flooding and loss of property. For many of the plants, animals, and humans in these places, the options are stark: retreat or perish in g firsthand. “Deeply felt Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore looks at communities impacted by these events and how governments have or have not responded to them.
