Running Out (eBook)

In Search of Water on the High Plains

Lucas Bessire (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21265-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Finalist for the National Book AwardAn intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartlandThe Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force.Anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture, eroding democratic norms, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive, sustainable future.An urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change, Running Out is a revelatory account of family, complicity, loss, and what it means to find your way back home.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.5.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 27 b/w illus. 2 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Agribusiness • Agricultural Economics • Agriculture • alfalfa • annoyance • anthropologist • Aquifer • arable land • Arid • Arkansas River • Arkansas River Valley • atrazine • bathrobe • Beef cattle • Behavior • belonging • Bison hunting • Black Kettle • Boot Hill Museum • brigadier general • Buffalo grass • bushel • Calcium • Cash crop • cattle • Central America • Central Australia • Chaff (countermeasure) • chert • Cimarron River (Arkansas River) • climate change • Clothing • Cloud • Commodity • conservative America • conservative values • Copyright • Cotton Gin • critique • crop insurance • crop rotation • Dairy • defoliant • Depression (mood) • disaster • Drinking Water • Drought • Dry lake • Dryland farming • Dust Bowl • dust storm • Ear tag • ecological collapse • Environment • Environmental Crisis • epicenter • Ethanol fuel • ethnography • evaporation • Everyday life • Exclusion • family farm • family histories • Farmer • Farm Families • Farmhouse • feedlot • Firmament • Fort Lyon (Virginia) • Fossil water • Fourth power • Francisco Goldman • Future Generation • Gene Autry • George Bent • global warming • Grain Elevator • Gran Chaco • grandparent • Great Plains • groundwater • groundwater depletion • Groundwater recharge • Hate group • Heartland • Herbicide • High Plains (United States) • howitzer • Hydrology • Indian Territory • Industry Group • injunction • insurance • insurance policy • Intensive Farming • Investment • Irrigation • Irrigation sprinkler • John Deere • Josiah Gregg • Julene Bair • Kansas Department of Agriculture • Kansas Geological Survey • kinship • laborer • legal case • Limited liability • Lunch • magnifying glass • manure • meat • medicine show • Memoir • Memory • Mennonite • Mexican Americans • Michael Taussig • Miscarriage • Moisture • Monoculture • Moral Economy • mule deer • Narration • newspaper • Non-renewable resource • North Wind • Nozzle • nutrient • Obesity • Officer (armed forces) • Ogallala Aquifer • Ogallala Blue • optimism • Paraguay • partisanship • pasture • Payment • Pendulum clock • percentage • Pesticide • Plains • Plains Apache • plough • polarization • pollution • Princeton University Press • Profiteering (business) • Quantity • Race to the Bottom • Racism • Ranch • Requirement • resentment • reservoir • Resource Depletion • Risk Management Agency • river • rural life • Sand Creek massacre • sandhill crane • Santa Fe Trail • Sarah Smarsh • Sediment • Settler Colonialism • Shell (projectile) • Shortgrass prairie • Silage • Silas Soule • silt • Soil • sorghum • Starbucks • Straight-six engine • Supply (economics) • sustainability • Swather • syndrome • tallow • Technology • Telescopic sight • the best memoirs • The Ogallala Road • The Various • Triticale • typewriter • Uncertainty • United States Department of Agriculture • Washita River • Water conservation • water crisis • water resources • Water right • water supply • water table • Water Use • water wars • west texas • whipped cream • white settlement • Wichita Mountains • William Ashworth • Works Progress Administration • Writing • year • Yearling (horse) • Yellow Grass • yokel
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21265-1 / 0691212651
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21265-4 / 9780691212654