‘A stunning atlas of the present and future.’—Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York
‘An impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities.’—Booklist, starred review
One of the Best Science Books of 2023, New Scientist
This immersive portal to islands around the world highlights the impacts of sea level rise and shimmers with hopeful solutions to combat it.
Atlases are being redrawn as islands are disappearing. What does an island see when the sea rises?
Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean weaves together essays, maps, art, and poetry to show us—and make us see—island nations in a warming world.
Low-lying islands are least responsible for global warming, but they are suffering the brunt of it. This transportive atlas reorients our vantage point to place islands at the center of the story, highlighting Indigenous and Black voices and the work of communities taking action for local and global climate justice. At once serious and playful, well-researched and lavishly designed,
Sea Change is a stunning exploration of the climate and our world’s coastlines. Full of immersive storytelling, scientific expertise, and rallying cries from island populations that shout with hope—’We are not drowning! We are fighting!’—this atlas will galvanize readers in the fight against climate change and the choices we all face.
Table des matières
CONTENTS
FOREWORD Bill Mc Kibben
FOREWORDS
Hilda Heine, Marshall Islands / Dessima Williams, Grenada
INTRODUCTION Of Oceans and Islands
ARCTIC OCEAN
Greenland
Sarichef Island
ATLANTIC OCEAN
Lennox Island
Deal Island
Republic of Cabo Verde
Bissagos Islands
Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe
INDIAN OCEAN AND PERSIAN GULF
Kingdom of Bahrain
Union of the Comoros
Republic of Mauritius
Republic of Seychelles
Republic of Maldives
Bhasan Char and Sandwip
Republic of Singapore
PACIFIC OCEAN
South China Sea Islands
Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
Guåhan
Republic of Palau
Federated States of Micronesia
Republic of Marshall Islands
Republic of Kiribati
Republic of Nauru
Republic of Vanuatu
Solomon Islands
Independent State of Papua New Guinea
Republic of Fiji
Tuvalu
Tokelau
Independent State of Samoa
Niue
Cook Islands
Kingdom of Tonga
CARIBBEAN SEA AND GULF OF MEXICO
Bonaire
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Grenada
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Barbados
Saint Lucia
Martinique
Commonwealth of Dominica
Antigua and Barbuda
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Jamaica
Republic of Cuba
Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Isle de Jean Charles
ANTARCTIC OCEAN
Pine Island
GLOSSARY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
MAP CITATIONS
WORKS CITED
CREDITS
A propos de l’auteur
Christina Gerhardt is Associate Professor at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Senior Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and former Barron Professor of Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University. Her environmental journalism has been published by Grist.org, The Nation, The Progressive, and the Washington Monthly.
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