Tag: environment

Sometimes I wonder, why is the Salton Sea worth saving?

Sometimes I wonder, why is the Salton Sea worth saving? It’s not like the Aral Sea or Lake Chad. It was created in an engineering accident 100 years ago. Until then it was a low area in the desert.

This article makes the case for restoration, or at least remediation. A century’s worth of agricultural runoff (which has made the lake too toxic for fish) has settled to the bottom. If it dries out, all that toxic sediment becomes wind-borne dust.

Dust rising: As California’s largest lake dries up, it threatens nearby communities with clouds of toxic dust

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@Alonealastalovedalongthe responds: Too Big To Fail : Lake Edition

Yeah, that’s…a pretty good description.

@mithriltabby wonders about bioremediation and just how salty it’s gotten.

Hmm, according to Wikipedia it’s currently around 56 grams per liter, which is saltier than the ocean, but not as salty as the Great Salt Lake. But it’s increasing by 3% each year.

Wikipedia: Salton Sea

I find it bizarre that a book that criticized excesses of capitalism would have been …

Three-Body problem ch1-2, Silent Spring:

I find it bizarre that a book that criticized excesses of capitalism would have been characterized as counter-revolutionary, capitalist propaganda.

But of course both capitalism and communism are quite capable of environmental destruction. Rapacious state, corporation, or individual, it’s a universal human failing, like the image of an iceberg in the ocean that Wenjie imagines, independent of ideology.

#sffbookclub #environment #amreading #books

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To clarify: I don’t disbelieve it. I would not at all be surprised if it had actually been portrayed this way, particularly knowing China’s environmental record.

I’m just saying it’s a weird contradiction. One more thing I have to wrap my mind around to read a story set during the cultural revolution.

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