[image: conjectural map of post climate change florida showing half of state under water]
The New Yorker: Some people told me that they thought the only realistic response for South Florida was retreat. “I live opposite a park,” Philip Stoddard, the mayor of South Miami—also a city in its own right—told me. “And there’s a low area in it that fills up when it rains. I was out there this morning walking my dog, and I saw fish in it. Where the heck did the fish come from? They came from underground. We have fish that travel underground! What that means is, there’s no keeping the water out. So ultimately this area has to depopulate.”
[image: 2016 presidential election map showing florida as a red state]
