Water Always Wins, and Welcome to Our Long Emergency



It’s been a week of heat and fire, but water, in the end, is the key to human sustainability, or the opposite. Join Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School in a brisk chat with Erica Gies, author of “Water Always Wins – Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge,” and Eric W. Sanderson, the Wildlife Conservation Society landscape ecologist best known for his bestseller “Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City.”

Also joining at 2 pm is James Howard Kunstler, author of the 2005 book “The Long Emergency.”
http://kunstler.com

Learn about Erica Gies and her book:
https://slowwater.world/

Here’s Eric Sanderson’s Twitter home:
https://twitter.com/ewsanderson

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3 thoughts on “Water Always Wins, and Welcome to Our Long Emergency”

  1. Question: If the USA were to split into 2 nations, one progressive on Environment Management and Local and Individual Rights, the other traditional and centralized, would this advance our pace of progress in mid-century and beyond? Are any political scientists and economists modeling this?

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  2. Andy you were quite correct in thinking I would enjoy this podcast. I, in fact, loved it! Literally the highpoint of my whole week. By the way I totally agree with James Kunstler that electric cars are not going to solve the transportation crises as they are far too expensive. As the elites have demanded safer and safer and ever more technologically complex automobiles the prices of everything auto related have already gone thru the roof! I recently purchased an 11 year old Toyota RAV 4 with 130,000 miles on it and paid $500 less than a Ferrari GTO sold for back when I raced sports cars in the late 1960s. Ask any Maine auto mechanic how many times a week a customer tells them "But I can't afford that!" and they will say "Don't you mean how many times a day?" Anyone who thinks that technology is the answer to our growing problems should read Edward Tenners excellent "Why Things Bite Back." I also heartily agree with James when he says the time to face reality is long past. As my dad used to say when I whined about changing the oil in the lawnmower, "The lawnmower doesn't care if you "want" to change the oil, you either change the oil or the lawnmower will blow up!" Get real America…time is fast running out.

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