Mario Alejandro Ariza is the author of the book, Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe. He covers federal courts for the South Florida Sun Sentinel and his writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic, Huffington Post, The New Tropic, and other publications.

In Miami, environmental injustice and the ocean tides rise alongside luxury housing

The city's economic divide leaves everyone but the rich vulnerable to climate change, a scene that will play out around the world in the coming decades