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Mississippi River Tragedies - A Century of Unnatural Disaster (Hardcover)
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Mississippi River Tragedies - A Century of Unnatural Disaster (Hardcover)
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Read a free excerpt here! American engineers have done astounding
things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of
its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles
of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting
the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law
has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts,
so-called "natural disasters" continue to strike the Mississippi
basin, as raging floodwaters decimate waterfront communities and
abandoned towns literally crumble into the Gulf of Mexico. In some
places, only the tombstones remain, leaning at odd angles as the
underlying soil erodes away. Mississippi River Tragedies reveals
that it is seductively deceptive-but horribly misleading-to call
such catastrophes "natural." Authors Christine A. Klein and Sandra
B. Zellmer present a sympathetic account of the human dreams,
pride, and foibles that got us to this point, weaving together
engaging historical narratives and accessible law stories drawn
from actual courtroom dramas. The authors deftly uncover the larger
story of how the law reflects and even amplifies our ambivalent
attitude toward nature-simultaneously revering wild rivers and
places for what they are, while working feverishly to change them
into something else. Despite their sobering revelations, the
authors' final message is one of hope. Although the acknowledgement
of human responsibility for unnatural disasters can lead to blame,
guilt, and liability, it can also prod us to confront the
consequences of our actions, leading to a liberating sense of
possibility and to the knowledge necessary to avoid future
disasters.
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