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Chapter 1: On the Beach at the Ritz - Chapter 2: The Coming of the Iquanas

The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Ballard, J.G. The Drowned World. Berkley Books, 1962.

• Chapter 1: "On the Beach at the Ritz" opens with a near future, where Earth has become almost unrecognizable due to the effects of climate change.

• The once lush and green planet is now a barren, flooded wasteland with few areas left that are habitable for humans.

• The temperature has risen to such an extent that Greenland, once a frozen wasteland, is now the most temperate climate on Earth.

• Dr. Robert Kerans is a scientist who is part of a team studying the effects of flooding on London, one of the few remaining cities that are still somewhat livable.

• Kerans wakes up to a relentlessly hot day.

• He usually wakes up earlier to get...

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