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 Stories About: Africa AND Australia AND dams AND energy AND India
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Damalot
Jacques Leslie's Deep Water sheds light on dam dramas |
Michelle Nijhuis |
12 Oct 2005 |
Arts and Minds |
| What does hell look like to an environmentalist? In the classic Encounters With the Archdruid, writer John McPhee imagines this particular inferno. The outer ring, he writes, is a moat filled with DDT. Inside lies another moat brimming with burning gasoline, and still deeper are masses of bulldozers and chainsaws. In the middle -- at "the absolute epicenter of hell on earth" -- stands a dam. & ... |
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| Topics: Africa, Australia, dams, energy, India (all these topics) |
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