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Coastal Futures
Stories of a changing climate · volume 01
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CONTENTS
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01 The shoreline
Where the water meets the road
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02 Field notes
Six people, one estuary
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03 The long forecast
What the models ask of us
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CHAPTER 01 The shoreline
Where the water meets the road
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A farmer's dream
The tide comes in quietly here, the way it always has, and the road fills from the edges first. By the time anyone thinks to move a car, the water is already at the wheel arches and the morning has turned into a small, familiar emergency. What looks like weather is also a ledger. Every centimetre of sea-level rise is written into insurance premiums, bus timetables, the price of bread, the school run. The coast does not announce its accounting; it simply sends the bill, a little earlier each decade.
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CHAPTER
Field notes
For the people who live at the edge, adaptation is not an abstract word. It is a raised path, a new drain, a conversation about which streets will be defended and which will be allowed to move. It is the difficult arithmetic of a place that cannot be kept exactly as it was. The tide comes in quietly here, the way it always has, and the road fills from the edges first. By the time anyone thinks to move a car, the water is already at the wheel arches and the morning has turned into a small, familiar emergency.
Researchers call this managed retreat. Residents call it leaving. The gap between the two vocabularies is where most of the work happens, in kitchens and church halls and long evening meetings that end without a vote. What looks like weather is also a ledger. Every centimetre of sea-level rise is written into insurance premiums, bus timetables, the price of bread, the school run. The coast does not announce its accounting; it simply sends the bill, a little earlier each decade.
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We are not losing the coast. We are learning to share it with the water.
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PHOTOGRAPH Fieldwork, early morning
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BY THE NUMBERS
The long forecast
2020 42
2040 61
2060 78
2080 92
2100 100
What looks like weather is also a ledger. Every centimetre of sea-level rise is written into insurance premiums, bus timetables, the price of bread, the school run. The coast does not announce its accounting; it simply sends the bill, a little earlier each decade.
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CHAPTER 02 Field notes
Six people, one estuary
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CHAPTER
The long forecast
What looks like weather is also a ledger. Every centimetre of sea-level rise is written into insurance premiums, bus timetables, the price of bread, the school run. The coast does not announce its accounting; it simply sends the bill, a little earlier each decade. Researchers call this managed retreat. Residents call it leaving. The gap between the two vocabularies is where most of the work happens, in kitchens and church halls and long evening meetings that end without a vote.
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Adaptation, in practice
The tide comes in quietly here, the way it always has, and the road fills from the edges first. By the time anyone thinks to move a car, the water is already at the wheel arches and the morning has turned into a small, familiar emergency. For the people who live at the edge, adaptation is not an abstract word. It is a raised path, a new drain, a conversation about which streets will be defended and which will be allowed to move. It is the difficult arithmetic of a place that cannot be kept exactly as it was.
Researchers call this managed retreat. Residents call it leaving. The gap between the two vocabularies is where most of the work happens, in kitchens and church halls and long evening meetings that end without a vote. What looks like weather is also a ledger. Every centimetre of sea-level rise is written into insurance premiums, bus timetables, the price of bread, the school run. The coast does not announce its accounting; it simply sends the bill, a little earlier each decade.
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PHOTOGRAPH The estuary at dusk
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The plan was never to hold the line. It was to move it.
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Six people, one estuary
Researchers call this managed retreat. Residents call it leaving. The gap between the two vocabularies is where most of the work happens, in kitchens and church halls and long evening meetings that end without a vote. The tide comes in quietly here, the way it always has, and the road fills from the edges first. By the time anyone thinks to move a car, the water is already at the wheel arches and the morning has turned into a small, familiar emergency.
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CHAPTER 03 The long forecast
What the models ask of us
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What the models ask
What looks like weather is also a ledger. Every centimetre of sea-level rise is written into insurance premiums, bus timetables, the price of bread, the school run. The coast does not announce its accounting; it simply sends the bill, a little earlier each decade. For the people who live at the edge, adaptation is not an abstract word. It is a raised path, a new drain, a conversation about which streets will be defended and which will be allowed to move. It is the difficult arithmetic of a place that cannot be kept exactly as it was.
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BY THE NUMBERS
Sea level, illustrative
Low 35
Central 62
High 88
Extreme 100
What looks like weather is also a ledger. Every centimetre of sea-level rise is written into insurance premiums, bus timetables, the price of bread, the school run. The coast does not announce its accounting; it simply sends the bill, a little earlier each decade.
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CHAPTER
The difficult arithmetic
For the people who live at the edge, adaptation is not an abstract word. It is a raised path, a new drain, a conversation about which streets will be defended and which will be allowed to move. It is the difficult arithmetic of a place that cannot be kept exactly as it was. What looks like weather is also a ledger. Every centimetre of sea-level rise is written into insurance premiums, bus timetables, the price of bread, the school run. The coast does not announce its accounting; it simply sends the bill, a little earlier each decade.
The tide comes in quietly here, the way it always has, and the road fills from the edges first. By the time anyone thinks to move a car, the water is already at the wheel arches and the morning has turned into a small, familiar emergency. Researchers call this managed retreat. Residents call it leaving. The gap between the two vocabularies is where most of the work happens, in kitchens and church halls and long evening meetings that end without a vote.
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