Tag: Book Review
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Book Review: Seek Higher Ground
by Peter Moyle Seek Higher Ground: The Natural Solution to Our Urgent Flooding Crisis, by Tim Palmer. University of California Press 2024. Flooding is a natural phenomenon that we humans keep assuming can be controlled with enough effort and engineering. But this simply is not possible, as floods across the globe repeatedly demonstrate. People continue to…
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Water is for fighting over? – a review of John Fleck’s recent book
By Jay Lund Most expressions on Western water issues are reflex or studied advocacy favoring a single viewpoint or opposing other viewpoints. A minority provide thoughtful and reasonably balanced insights. John Fleck’s new book, “Water is for fighting over” is at the 1% extreme of thoughtful readable pieces on western water. The book is one…