Artist Sets Futuristic Dinner Party In World Reshaped By Rising Seas

What will our dinners look like when temperatures and sea levels rise and water floods our coastal towns and cities?

Allie Wist, 27, an associate art director at Saveur magazine, attempts to answer that question in her latest art project, "Flooded." It's a fictional photo essay (based on real scientific data) about a dinner party menu at a time when climate change has significantly altered our diets.

Wist has been following news about climate change with a growing sense of urgency. Global temperatures have risen in recent decades and extreme weather in the South Pacific. Our oceans are becoming more acidic from dissolved carbon dioxde, hurting marine life. And, in some parts of the world, farmers are struggling with unpredictable growing seasons.