Rising Tides Sinking Cities: The Sea Level Rise, Disappearing Cities, and the Fight for a Drowning Planet (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798185213438)

This book is about the water that is coming for all of us, though it will not arrive everywhere at the same speed or with the same consequences. Some cities will fight the ocean with concrete and steel.

Some will retreat to higher ground. Some island nations may cease to exist as physical territories while their people scatter across the globe, carrying with them a national identity rooted in a homeland that has slipped beneath the waves.

What makes sea level rise different from other environmental crises is its permanence. A polluted river can be cleaned. A deforested hillside can be replanted. But when the ocean claims a coastline, it does not give it back.

The water stays, and everything that was built, planted, or lived upon is gone. This finality demands a different kind of attention, a recognition that the decisions made in the next few decades will determine the geography of the world for centuries to come.

The pages that follow tell the story of rising tides through the places and people most directly affected. They move from the deep geological past to an uncertain future, pausing along the way in sinking cities, disappearing islands, and eroding villages where the consequences of a warming planet are not theoretical but lived.

I hope this book serves as both a warning and an invitation to take the crisis seriously before the waterline reaches your own front door.

Author: Richard Murch
ISBN-13: 9798185213438
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2026
Pages: 162
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d