A Crack in the Edge of the World
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 12. 2.05
In 1906 an earthquake was reputed to have destroyed San Francisco- others said a fire did it, yet others said that gratuitous use of dynamite to create firebreaks destroyed more than the actual earthquake; that only 500 people died or 3000 people died; the whole thing is a bundle of contradictions. Simon Winchester's new book looks at all of this and tries to make sense of it, but only one conclusion is clear: Real Estate developers rule and everyone's vested interest was best served by rebuilding as quickly as possible in the same place, (Daniel Burnham be damned!) and that the same thing is going to happen again. ::Amazon
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printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper? If not, yr promoting the further destruction of old-growth forests
There's a thing called the library.
as someone who lives in the delta region of california, i have to say that many of my porofessors are warning of "the big one" hitting and causing a major disaster. before Katrina the number one most likely place for flooding was new orleans, now it is sacramento and stockton california, moving up from number 2. it is predicted that if an earthquake above 6.0 hit the san andreas, the levees in the delta would rupture, and mass flooding would occur. much like the situation in new orleans, developing on floodplains and building artificial levees on top of natural ones causes the river to rise as the floodplain drops, due to accumulation pf river bedload. of course, no one in positions of authority are listening bc of real estate developers. it has seemed in more ways than one that they have been the decision makers in my beautiful state lately.
borrowing a book from a library does mitigate the damage but doesn't bring the original tree or rainforest back to life.
Write to the publishers and request FSC and recycled paper in all of their books.