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Sep 2, 2025
Description
Our planet is in peril. Seas are rising, oceans are acidifying, ice is melting, coasts are flooding, species are dying, and communities are faltering. Despite these dire circumstances, most of us don't have a clear sense of how the interconnected crises in our ocean are affecting the climate system, food webs, coastal cities, and biodiversity, and which solutions can help us co-create a better future.
"Engaging and . . . enraging" (San Francisco Chronicle), The Atlas of Disappearing Places depicts twenty locations across the globe under siege from four different climate impacts. Each chapter paints a portrait of an existential threat in a particular place, weaving together contemporary stories and speculative "future histories" with beautiful, full-color illustrations to offer "suggestions for practical ways to reduce climate impact" (Foreword Reviews).
As the effects of climate change continue to become clearer, and the time to reverse it slips further away, The Atlas of Disappearing Places is "a striking and deeply researched work of art and environmental activism" (BookPage) that will inspire readers to take on the greatest fight of our lives.
Product Details
Publisher | New Press |
Publish Date | September 02, 2025 |
Pages | 240 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781620979839 |
Dimensions | N/A |
About the Author
Christina Conklin is an artist, writer, and researcher whose work investigates the intersection of natural systems and belief systems, often using the ocean as both site and metaphor. Her essays, exhibitions, and installations consider our cultural responses to the intersecting ecological and social crises of our time. She holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and has exhibited internationally. She is currently working with thought leaders and activists around the world to help communities create regenerative cultural systems. She lives with her husband and two children in Half Moon Bay, California.
Marina Psaros is a sustainability expert and has led climate action programs across public, private, and nonprofit organizations for over a decade. She is one of the creators of The King Tides Project, an international community science and education initiative. An amateur cartographer and ocean advocate, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Reviews
Praise for The Atlas of Disappearing Places:
"A colorful global tour filled with artistic maps and imagined views from a 2050 when many problems have been addressed."
--Bloomberg
"After delving into Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros' engaging and sometimes enraging The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis, you may find it difficult to remain passive about climate change for a whole lot longer."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"The rare coffee table book that's also a call to arms."
--Chicago Review of Books
"Painted with water-soluble inks on sheets of dried seaweed, the book's maps are textured, attractive, and informative. . . . Climate change is not just about melting ice caps and starving polar bears, and The Atlas of Disappearing Places brings that reality home."
--Foreword Reviews
"A striking and deeply researched work of art and environmental activism."
--BookPage
"A beautiful work of art and an indispensable resource to learn more about the devastating consequences of the climate crisis, The Atlas of Disappearing Places will engage and inspire readers on the most pressing issue of our time."
--Yale Climate Connections
"A treat for anyone up for a systematic exploration of climate change's effects on coastal communities around the world."
--The Provincetown Independent "Beautiful maps and hopeful vignettes about the future temper this important book about climate change in our world."
--Library Journal
"An extraordinary journey on the frontiers of scientific understanding into life's exquisitely complex interdependence communicated by master storytellers. At once captivating and deeply informative. Terrifying and hopeful, a must-read for all who care."
--David Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, and Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth
--Richard Heinberg, senior fellow, Post Carbon Institute
--John Englander, oceanographer, author of Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward
--Carl Safina, author of Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
--Dahr Jamail, author of The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
--Lucy R. Lippard, curator of Weather Report: Art and Climate Change
--Vandana Shiva
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