The drowning of money island : a forgotten community's fight against the rising seas threatening coastal America / Andrew S. Lewis.
"The Drowning of Money Island tells the story of a journalist's return to a hometown ravaged by Superstorm Sandy, where lack of recovery, sea level rise, and a state effort to buy out and demolish neighborhoods has fractured the community and foreshadowed coastal America's sinking fut...
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: The storm. "Our American dream"
- "Where poor people came to get away"
- "Thus far, and no farther shalt thou go"
- "The next least liked"
- "We know not what a day may bring forth."
- Part two: No retreat. "Drain the swamp."
- "Hey man, that's cool."
- "The window is getting smaller."
- "Save the bay."
- Part three: Resilience. "I know where it is and will always return."
- "Aren't we a part of this?"
- "Tree City USA"
- "I'm just a dumb fisherman."
- "I think it's the bugs."
- "We have gobs of plans."
- "This view, we shall see, persists."
- "Build your wings on the way down."