Reflections understanding our use and abuse of water
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Beneath the Surface -- 1. Misunderstood Water -- Water cycles -- Water problems are local -- Scarcity is constructed -- Rain is commodified -- 2. Insatiable Thirst -- The mission -- Hydraulic societies...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
2023
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Beneath the Surface -- 1. Misunderstood Water -- Water cycles -- Water problems are local -- Scarcity is constructed -- Rain is commodified -- 2. Insatiable Thirst -- The mission -- Hydraulic societies -- The supply -- The infrastructure -- Lubricating colonisation -- The thirst -- Water for the wealthy -- From crops per drop to dollars per drop -- Desert bloom syndrome -- Not solutions -- Shade balls -- Desalting the sea to bloom the desert -- Sugar water -- Bottled water -- 3. Killer Water -- Everlasting conflict -- A tool of war -- Hunting thirsty gazelles -- Clearing the killing fields -- Ethnic cleansing -- A target of war -- Cumulative impact -- Spreading disease -- Toxic biospheres of war -- The Rules of War -- 4. Hostile Waters -- Why we don't wage war over water -- Why we don't wage peace over water -- Confusing correlation with causation -- Lazy thinking about 'cooperation' -- Why we do fight over water -- Hoarding on the Tigris and Euphrates -- Hoarding on the Nile -- Hoarding on the Jordan -- The rules for sharing water -- Conclusion: Water Whilst It Is in Our Hands -- Bibliography -- Index "This book calls for us to develop an informed ethos of respect for water, to save ourselves. It counts on readers to reflect honestly on the intimate relationship we have developed with the substance, because the stakes are high. Water has qualities which make it nourishing, cleansing, and unifying. But, as the book shows, we pump aquifers dry, contaminate lakes, fight over rivers, generally using and abusing water at will. Cases from all over the world and especially from the Middle East detail how the lure of profit defeats the counsel to use water sustainably, how chauvinist ideologies lead to inequality with monotonous predictability, and how the violent logic of war both weaponizes and victimizes water. It argues that what we do with water whilst it is in our hands mirrors our behaviour to each other, and that society needs to understand water in a new way to reverse the desecration." |
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| Beschreibung: | 136 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780197575123 978-0-19-757512-3 |