New York 2140

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Science Fiction

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Imagine you're a New Yorker in the mid 22nd century. You have to deal with all sorts of headaches like traffic jams on the East River or brownstones collapsing into the canals. People think you're crazy to live in this Super Venice, but you wouldn't want to be anywhere else. That's the world Kim Stanley Robinson imagines in his latest novel New York 2140. It's a hopeful vision of a future where people are doing their best to live normal lives while climate change radically alters everything around them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Imaginary Worlds.
0:09.8	A show about how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief.
0:14.0	I'm Eric Mollinsky.
0:16.2	On a beautiful spring day like this, I love coming to my favorite spot in the city,
0:20.6	Madison Square Park.
0:23.0	Right to the south is the old flat iron building, which is a gigantic triangular wedge.
0:28.2	I'm sure you've seen it before, it was literally the first skyscraper ever.
0:32.2	To the north is the Empire State Building, looming over in kind of like a maternal way.
0:37.5	And then on the east side of the park is the old Metropolitan Life Building, which is a
0:41.9	very tall clock tower with a slender pointed roof and a gold dome on top.
0:48.6	And I actually got married a block away from here.
0:51.0	My wedding photos are in this park.
0:53.0	There's also a lot of old statues here.
0:55.8	And a lot of contemporary art too.
0:59.1	Do you have the picture in your mind of this park?
1:02.4	Okay, good.
1:03.4	Now imagine it's all underwater.
1:07.9	Sadly the science is irrefutable.
1:11.1	As the oceans get warmer, the sea will expand and rise.
1:14.0	And the only real debate is how high this sea is going to rise.
1:18.3	How much of Manhattan is going to be swallowed up by the Atlantic Ocean.
1:24.0	And I love New York history.
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