If the Water Goes, the Desert Moves in

“Without water, you’ve got nothing around here.”
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But one needs to read only a bit of world history to realize that walls can come down as a quickly as they were put up.
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“my face received about a hundred times more radiation than Japanese nuke bomb”
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Suddenly tears flowed. “Geez, you could say I squashed a bug.”
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And, according to Indian friends, there are strong tribal memories of the devastating 1918 flu
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As I look out my window, the smoke from the Bush fire is belching upward behind the fabled profile of…
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How do you explain racism when it is so subtle and ingrained that it became invisible to white people generations ago?
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He would constantly remind us that ‘no matter the threat, always look them in the eye so they have to acknowledge you’re human.
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When all hell breaks loose and disorder rules, rodeo clowns stay self-possessed and focused.
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Climate change and the conversion of wild ecosystems, if unchecked, threaten to collapse the global bounty of “nature’s services.”
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Brezonick knows that the huge furnaces that burn coal are closing fast. “I don’t think coal will recover and society has turned against it,”
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The real obstacle to Babbitt’s proposal springs from our romanticized vision of what agriculture looks like in the West.
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