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In this issue of Orion, we look toward a flooded future — with a new perspective.
- Lacy Johnson, founder of the Houston flood museum, couldn’t swim until three years ago, when, after a series of floods in her neighborhood, she signed herself up for swimming lessons. Lacy’s experience asks us to consider how we as a species might survive the rising tides all around us: not by seeking higher ground, but by learning to swim.
- Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing visits a city in Indonesia where floods are smothered by concrete.
- We report from Baltimore and lower Manhattan, where efforts are being made to surface underground rivers.
- Plus new work from Lulu Miller, Diane Wilson, and Aimee Nezhukumatathil
