The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities
The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities – Review
I loved this book so much that I’ve widely read the first chapter aloud to three positive people on the phone, and I’m also planning to buy a copy for every Maryland state legislator. (Let me know if you do the same in your state.) Mike Tidwell writes beautifully. Even though I’ve seen An Inconvenient Truth, and rarely heard Bill McKibbon speak, I quickly learned plenty from The Ravaging Tide that I hadn’t previously heard before. Tidwell shares history, science, policy, despair (when we don’t act on pure energy policy), and promise (when we do). Yes, it may be odd, but I was going (not currently driving!) down sidewalks while simply reading this book. I couldn’t put it down, until the very last page. Mike Tidwell is a former journalist and travel writer for the Washington Post and the National Geographic Traveler.