That and a lot of reading was the bulk of my research. And then I visited New York City a couple of times during the writing of the book, and I wandered the city from the Cloisters out to Coney Island, and various places where people don't go as tourists, to try to see what the new sea level situation would be like. I marked the 50-foot contour interval all around the map and transferred that new coastline to a tourist map. Robinson: First, I got a USGS topo map of the area that included the contour intervals for elevation as well as the streets and bridges and everything. : How did you flesh out what the future drowned New York would look like? We are in an economic-slash-political system that is actually causing the problem, and so it's very hard to make it into a solution for the problem. It was a great suggestion, and I just ran with it. The book is making the case that climate change is basically a financial disaster, or has been caused by bad economics rather than bad technology or pure number of people. When he gave me that idea, I thought that's perfect, because global finance has a center in New York, and then all the jokes about being underwater financially could be fitted physically to the situation.
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