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nuhafariha 's review for:
Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
by Mario Alejandro Ariza
Thank you to Perseus Books & NetGalley for the Advanced Reader's Copy!
Available July 14th 2020
Like his beloved sprawling city, Mario Alejandro Ariza's "Disposable City" covers a lot of ground. With everything from immigration reform and American Indian/American Native activism to glitzy parks and million dollar housing markets, Ariza tries to show us the tangible and very real threat of climate change. In both personal encounters and research, Ariza puts together an intricate and foreboding warning. Even for a reader like me, who is not from Florida and doesn't know a lot about climate change, Ariza's text was engaging and educational. Personally, I enjoyed the he cleverly juxtapositions contrasting viewpoints, like disucssing the preservation of the Everglades from a Native perspective and from the Army perspective. Towards the end, I found myself nodding off a bit, only because the information can become repetitive and without clear, practical solutions, it can frustrating. But perhaps that's the start of another book from this author.
Available July 14th 2020
Like his beloved sprawling city, Mario Alejandro Ariza's "Disposable City" covers a lot of ground. With everything from immigration reform and American Indian/American Native activism to glitzy parks and million dollar housing markets, Ariza tries to show us the tangible and very real threat of climate change. In both personal encounters and research, Ariza puts together an intricate and foreboding warning. Even for a reader like me, who is not from Florida and doesn't know a lot about climate change, Ariza's text was engaging and educational. Personally, I enjoyed the he cleverly juxtapositions contrasting viewpoints, like disucssing the preservation of the Everglades from a Native perspective and from the Army perspective. Towards the end, I found myself nodding off a bit, only because the information can become repetitive and without clear, practical solutions, it can frustrating. But perhaps that's the start of another book from this author.