Joan Didion’s 1979 essay is still the best writing on water in California that I’ve ever read.
Joan Didion’s 1979 essay is still the best writing on water in California that I’ve ever read.
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Thanks for a great link! As an easterner I’ve always liked reading what westerners (especially Californians) have to say about water; it’s a connection to the planet that seems exotic when the act of shoveling snow is never more than four months away.
It is a great essay, isn’t it? I thought about it a little more; her view is pretty much the best possible outlook on the technocratic approach. Obviously a bureaucrat is going to respond well to that. But it is definitely a bias. I read Chris Clarke to return to a reverence for natural systems.