Water: A Biography By: Giulio Boccaletti [Audiobook] | M4B@126kb/s | 779.04 MiB
2021-09-14 | ASIN: 0593395395 | english | 14h17m
Author: Giulio Boccaletti
Narrated by: Giulio Boccaletti
Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. Boccaletti, of The Nature Conservancy, “tackles the most important story of our time: our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity†(Kelly McEvers, NPR host).
Writing with authority and brio, Giulio BocÂ*caletti - honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, UniverÂ*sity of Oxford - shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civÂ*ilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers. Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea-level changes from the last glacial melt, he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, led to a population explosion and labor specialization.Â*
We see with clarity how irrigation’s structure informed social structure (inventions such as the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity); how in ancient Greece, the communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy; how the Greek and Roman experiences with water security resulted in systems of taxation; and how the modern world as we know it began with a legal framework for the development of water infrastructure.Â*
Extraordinary for its monumental scope and piercing insightfulness, Water: A Biography richly enlarges our understanding of our relationship to - and fundamental reliance on - the most elemental substance on Earth.
Cover image: "Vista", painting by Tobias ToveraÂ*© 2016
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