Scientist Seth Darling offers a comprehensive--and sobering--look at an endangered vital resource: fresh water. Blending history, political science, current events, chemistry, ecology, and several other academic disciplines, he surveys society's water policies and the probable disastrous results of failing to change them.
In the 20th century, many bloody conflicts were for the control of oil. In the 21st, many will be for the control of water.
With an introduction by KD.
Darling is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Argonne National Laboratory. He spoke in Chicago on May 18, 2016. The original recording was provided by Dale Lehman of radio station WZRD (thanks!). I have slightly edited and condensed the talk for radio broadcast.
"New World Notes" is produced under the auspices (Latin for "average level of quality") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
This installment is available--in MP3 and other formats--also on The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/NewWorldNotes471-IsWaterTheNewOilpart1
Previously broqdcast, as NWN #471, in 2017.
More details, photos, nice links, & other good stuff on the show's Web site: http://newworldnotes.blogspot.com
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