{"id":33257,"date":"2017-01-07T07:02:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/new-york-2140-is-a-sci-fi-vision-of-the-world-reshaped"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:21:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:21:35","slug":"new-york-2140-is-a-sci-fi-vision-of-the-world-reshaped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/new-york-2140-is-a-sci-fi-vision-of-the-world-reshaped","title":{"rendered":"\u2018New York 2140\u2019 Is a Sci-Fi Vision of the World Reshaped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-york-2140-is-a-sci-fi-vision-of-the-world-reshaped.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If a trip to Venice is your ideal holiday, then you\u2019re going to love the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-york-2140-is-a-sci-fi-vision-of-the-world-reshaped2.jpg\" alt=\"new-york-2140-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-york-2140-is-a-sci-fi-vision-of-the-world-reshaped2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/new-york-2140-2-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/new-york-2140-2-236x420.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px)  100vw, 300px\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Most of us, however, will be quite sobered by Kim Stanley Robinson\u2019s upcoming novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B01KT7YTO6\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1&tag=lifeboatfound-20\"><em>New York 2140<\/em><\/a>, a near-future projection of a world reshaped by climate change. Sea level has risen by 50 feet, flooding the Big Apple and countless coastal cities around the planet. Thousands of species have gone extinct.<\/p>\n<p>The same economic and political forces driving the world ever closer to that reality are still in charge, setting life on a perpetual spin cycle of boom and bust, with the rich always getting richer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/01\/06\/new-york-2140-is-a-sci-fi-vision-of-the-world-reshaped-by-climate-change\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=620bda23b6-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-620bda23b6-57450241\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/01\/06\/new-york-2140-is-a-sci...5;57450241<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a trip to Venice is your ideal holiday, then you\u2019re going to love the future. Most of us, however, will be quite sobered by Kim Stanley Robinson\u2019s upcoming novel, New York 2140, a near-future projection of a world reshaped by climate change. Sea level has risen by 50 feet, flooding the Big Apple and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,39,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-economics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59242,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33257\/revisions\/59242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}