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“Sinking Feeling” by Alice Lowe
In an Ursula LeGuin story written in the seventies and set in an unspecified future time, Manhattan is under eleven feet of water at low tide, and oyster beds occupy San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square. That’s fiction, but it’s a fact that New York City is sinking under its own weight. Relentless construction—the city’s million-plus-and-ever-increasing buildings…
the water and the gills 