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The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell

The Water Will Come

Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

by Jeff Goodell
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  • Oct 24, 2017, 352 pages
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  • Aug 2018, 352 pages
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