In The Water Will Come, Jeff Goodell runs through just a few of the monuments—indeed, in some cases, whole cultures—that will be transformed into underwater relics, like sunken ships, this century: any beach you’ve ever visited; Facebook’s headquarters, the Kennedy Space Center, and the United States’ largest naval base, in Norfolk Virginia; the entire nations of the Maldives and the Marshall Islands; most of Bangladesh, including all of the mangrove forests that have been the kingdom of Bengal tigers for millennia; all of Miami Beach and much of the South Florida paradise engineered out of marsh and swamp and sandbar by rabid real-estate speculators less than a century ago; Saint Mark’s Basilica in Venice, today nearly a thousand years old; Venice Beach and Santa Monica in Los Angeles; the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, as well as Trump ’s “Winter White House” at Mar-a-Lago, Richard Nixon’s in Key Biscayne, and the original, Harry Truman’s, in Key West. This is a very partial list.” (Wallace-Wells 2020, p. 63)

Wallace-Wells, David. 2020. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming. New York: Tim Duggan Books.