According to scientific studies that, based on climate change, predict an exponential rise in sea level, the location of New York and especially its island of Manhattan, become a risk area in not so many years ahead.
In this book, the consequences of current studies transform New York into a Venice exposed to the rigors of the ocean that only engineering and pride strive to maintain as a great habitable city.
Faced with this proposal, the protagonism of the narrative proposal acquires a special consideration. Is it about offering us a novel or exposing what is coming our way through a place as emblematic to the West as New York?
The New York lifestyle is characterized by its dynamism, its ability to set trends in the rest of the world and its cosmopolitan nature par excellence. The city of the American dream and world business. The emblem of man's ability to colonize the world.
Only ..., nature forced into a future marked by our intervention will have a lot to say in our intention to overcome our own transforming capacity.
Did you know that if we compare the history of planet Earth with a calendar year, the passage of our civilization only takes a few minutes of the last day?
We can think that the planet is our world, that everything is for our service. But the reality is that we are only a kind of step. And that we ourselves may be causing our anticipated extinction.
Different characters present their daily lives to us from what were once the most emblematic buildings of New York. A mosaic from that year 2140 where we can see the human being accustomed to catastrophe, evoking ancestral memories of a city where rivers and land were perfectly differentiated, not like in that future in which everything is water, conquering the new tides of our boundless ambition and our zero perspective on that future.
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