Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore Audiobook (Free)

Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events, a period when it is increasingly obvious that climate modification is neither dreamed nor distant―and that rising seas are changing the coastline of america in irrevocable ways.

Within this highly original work of lyrical reportage, Elizabeth Rush manuals readers through a number of the locations where this change has been most dramatic, through the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New York about Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore City to the Bay Area. For many from the plant life, animals, and human beings in these areas, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand accounts from those facing this choice―a Staten Islander who dropped her dad during Sandy, the rest of the holdouts of a Local American community on the drowning Isle de Jean Charles, a community in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves more than 100 years ago―with information of animals biologists, activists, and various other members of the areas both currently at risk and currently displaced, Increasing privileges the voices of those usually kept in the margins.

At once polyphonic and precise, Growing is a shimmering yoga on vulnerability and on vulnerable communities, both human and a lot more than human, and on how best to forget about the areas we love.