The Octopus in the Parking Garage : : A Call for Climate Resilience / / Rob Verchick.
One morning in Miami Beach, an unexpected guest showed up in a luxury condominium complex’s parking garage: an octopus. The image quickly went viral. But the octopus—and the combination of infrastructure quirks and climate impacts that left it stranded—is more than a funny meme. It’s a potent symbol...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PART I Understanding Resilience
- 1 Let’s Talk About the Octopus
- 2 Adapt or Die
- 3 Sprawling Brains and Rubber Arms
- 4 Climate and Caste
- 5 Believing Is Seeing
- PART II: DOING RESILIENCE
- 6 Moonshot on the Bayou
- 7 Lights Out
- 8 Flash! Crack! Boom!
- 9 Yuccas, Gardeners, and Zookeepers
- 10 The Octopus’s Garden
- 11 The Long Goodbye
- 12 Persist and Prevail
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index