A review by allusory
The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis by Christina Conklin, Marina Psaros

3.0

A bleak but necessary look at what climate change is doing and will do in the future to our planet. Sadly multiple sections are already outdated with the advance of climate change progressing so much quicker in places than predicted. While the idea behind the artwork in the book is wonderful, in practice the maps and illustrations are so vague and hard to read as to often be useless at conveying information. Having one illustration per section and including clear visualized maps and data for everything else would have been a great help. Then there's the future projection 2050 sections. Tonally they are so off of the rest of the book, which is much closer to a high school textbook than an overly optimistic fantasy projection of humanity wildly changing it's nature in the next 28 years. I admire the aims of this book but I fear it's missed the mark.