Killing the Hidden Waters

Häftad, Engelska, 1985

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In the quarter-century since his first book, Killing the Hidden Waters, was published in 1977, Charles Bowden has become one of the premier writers on the American environment, rousing a generation of readers to both the wonder and the tragedy of humanity's relationship with the land. Revisiting his earliest work with a new introduction, "What I Learned Watching the Wells Go Down," Bowden looks back at his first effort to awaken people to the costs and limits of using natural resources through a simple and obvious example-water. He drives home the point that years of droughts, rationing, and even water wars have done nothing to slake the insatiable consumption of water in the American West. Even more timely now than in 1977, Killing the Hidden Waters remains, in Edward Abbey's words, "the best all-around summary I've read yet, anywhere, of how our greed-driven, ever-expanding urban-industrial empire is consuming, wasting, poisoning, and destroying not only the resource basis of its own existence, but also the vital, sustaining basis of life everywhere."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1985-05-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of Texas Press
Antal sidor:206
Förlag:University of Texas Press
ISBN:9780292743069

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Charles Bowden (1945–2014) lived and wrote in Tucson, Arizona. His books include Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family, Blues for Cannibals: Notes from Underground, Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America, and Desierto: Memories of the Future.

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"This slender book brims with wisdom and scholarship." Harold Scarlett, Houston Post "Charles Bowden's Killing the Hidden Waters is the best all-around summary I've read yet, anywhere, of how our greed-driven, ever-expanding urbanindustrial empire is consuming, wasting, poisoning and destroying not only the resource basis of its own existence but also the vital, sustaining basis of all life everywhere. This one little book tells the whole story. In my opinion, Charles Bowden is the best social critic and environmental journalist now working in the Amcrican southwest, a sharp and engaging writer who never lets his cool disgust at our collective stupidity erode his fundamental sympathy for thc actual living, breathing, still hopeful human beings who inhabit this besieged land. I salute him, and I wish him a million readers." Edward Abbey, author of Beyond the Wall and other books

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements Introduction (2003) Part One 1. The lay of the land Yield Place People 2. Stick People Food Way Dreams 3. Shovel 4. Tractor Gila River PapaguerÍa 5. Conquest The last cut Part Two 1. Pump Grass Wind Fossil Plan Part Three 1. Taking Care of Business Concentration and energy cost The debate Look again Notes Bibliography Index