In Deep: One City's Year of Climate Chaos

 
A neighborhood near Lake Charles, Louisiana, after Hurricane Laura in August 2020. (AFP via Getty Images)

A neighborhood near Lake Charles, Louisiana, after Hurricane Laura in August 2020. (AFP via Getty Images)


Most scientists believe climate change is increasing the severity of the storms we experience, and how quickly they intensify. After suffering two hurricanes, a winter storm, and devastating flooding in less than a year, Lake Charles, Louisiana, offers a troubling view of the wrenching, disturbingly inequitable effects of climate change.

In Deep: One City’s Year of Climate Chaos offers a rich journalistic portrait of a working-class city and its residents at a perilous moment in our planet’s existence.

Available Aug. 27.

 

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