Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World
Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic WorldHardcover – EXCELLENT USED CONDITIONMay 2, 2023by Steven Hawley (Author), David James Duncan (Foreword) The estimated 800,000 dams in the world can’t be blamed for destroying the earth’s entire biological inheritance, but they play an outsized role in that destruction. Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Crazy World is a kind of speed date with the history of water control -- its dams, diversions and canals, and just as importantly, the politics and power that evolved with them. Examples from the American West reveal that the costs of building and maintaining a sprawling water storage and delivery complex in an arid world—growing increasingly arid under the ravages of climate chaos—is well beyond the benefits furnished. Success stories from Patagonia and the Blue Heart of Europe point to a possible future where rivers run free and the earth restores itself.