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Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe Audiobook

By: Mario Alejandro Ariza
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Read By: Ron Butler Publisher: Bold Type Books Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.88 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781549101786
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Total Audiobook Chapters:

9

Longest Chapter Length:

78:04 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

46:29 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

64:37 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide.



Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. From sunny day flooding caused by higher tides to a sewer system on the brink of total collapse, the city undeniably lives in a climate changed world.

In Disposable City, Miami resident Mario Alejandro Ariza shows us not only what climate change looks like on the ground today, but also what Miami will look like 100 years from now, and how that future has been shaped by the city's racist past and present. As politicians continue to kick the can down the road and Miami becomes increasingly unlivable, real estate vultures and wealthy residents will be able to get out or move to higher ground, but the most vulnerable communities, disproportionately composed of people of color, will face flood damage, rising housing costs, dangerously higher temperatures, and stronger hurricanes that they can't afford to escape.

Miami may be on the front lines of climate change, but the battle it's fighting today is coming for the rest of the U.S. -- and the rest of the world -- far sooner than we could have imagined even a decade ago. Disposable City is a thoughtful portrait of both a vibrant city with a unique culture and the social, economic, and psychic costs of climate change that call us to act before it's too late.

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“Listeners will get a sense of the crisis facing the city yet be amused at the same time. Butler lets Ariza’s affection for the city come through, even as the author’s anger over climate gentrification emerges…Butler’s voice gradually builds in emotion, conveying urgency. With an assist from science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, Ariza wraps up his audiobook with a futurist’s tour of a sunken city.”

— AudioFile 

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  • A forceful depiction of a global crisis viewed through the lens of one of the world's most vulnerable cities.

    — Kirkus

  • Ariza blends recent research from scientists, conversations with residents, economic trends and history in a richly reported odyssey of one city's response to a growing crisis. Weaving in his own deeply personal narrative, Ariza shows the effects of the rising tide aren't just about environmental and infrastructural change -- they also impact individual lives.

    — Discover Magazine

  • Disposable City is a vivid and well-executed portrait of a city undergoing climate metamorphosis.

    — Julian Brave NoiseCat, Fellow, Type Media Center

  • Few places on earth make clearer the danger we're facing as a civilization: this absorbing tour of Miami (past, present, and future) will leave you insistent on joining the fight to slow down global warming!

    — Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

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About Ron Butler

James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time. He is the creator of unforgettable characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Effing Smith, and Maximum Ride, and of breathtaking true stories about the Kennedys, John Lennon, and Princess Diana, as well as our military heroes, police officers, and ER nurses. He has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton, told the story of his own life in James Patterson by James Patterson, and received an Edgar Award, nine Emmy Awards, the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, and the National Humanities Medal.