Our Climate Change Future Looks Like the Everglades

We are all Florida man.

Everglades drainage canal circa 1910 / Detroit Publishing Company via the Library of Congress

Not to be presumptuous, but if you think of the Everglades — the beautiful, foreboding wetlands that make up most of the southern tip of Florida — you might think of it as a swamp. Lots of swamp grass and swamp trees, alligators and wading birds. It’s a lot like a swamp. But what it actually is, is a river. A “river of grass” is how the…