Summary Of The Siege Of Miami By Elizabeth Korbert

Elizabeth Kolbert’s article “The Siege of Miami” pans out interesting structural patterns that can be overlooked at first glance. However, through a thorough analysis of Kolbert’s article, we can start to see how often certain fields and disciplines interconnect with the economic state of South Florida. For instance, Hal Wanless, a geological scientist who spent half a century studying how South Florida came to be, brings up a complex prediction that pans out an interesting structural pattern throughout the article. With the use of scientific data, he argues that insurance companies may stop selling policies, and banks may stop writing mortgages due to the impending risk that is posed by climate change, symbolizing an interconnected approach between
Despite that, the ignorance among Miami’s population has had a positive impact on its economic growth. Thanks to an increase in population, new condos, and cash. We can observe the growing economic state that Miami is undergoing. Having observed this, some may conclude that Wanless' prediction was wrong, however, while it seems that Miami is undergoing an economic boom, such money seems to be going down the drain when we start to observe how technology interconnects with economics through climate change. Miami Beach’s mayor, Philip Levine, described his plan to combat the effects of rising levels. A plan that cost him hundreds of millions of dollars to install 54 water pumps across Miami to help reduce flooding in Miami (Kolbert 3). While this seems like a good investment, it's been shown that such tactics weakened as sea-level rises. For example, the South Florida Water Management District, which operates sixty-one pump stations, over twenty hundred miles of canals, and two thousand water control systems, has shown great success in the