Mario Alejandro Ariza’s Disposable City is an extremely well-researched book on the future of Miami and South Florida in the face of the climate crisis and rising seas—scanning his footnotes alone is daunting. For those of us who live here, it’s also distressing reading—each year over the coming decades will result not only in diminished coastal territory but inland inundations as well. Decades away might sound distant, but American real-estate finance is based on 30-year mortgages. This has been vague in Floridians’ minds, but Ariza rules out any possible haziness about the future.
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