03001cam a2200349 4500 564486572 TxAuBib 20220427120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780691212654 0691212651 B08SJC1BXC Amazon 59f6be9d-3de7-4354-b507-054977b725fa OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2459568 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Bessire, Lucas. Running Out [Libby eBook] : In Search of Water on the High Plains. Princeton University Press, 2021. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 20MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><b>Finalist for the National Book Award<br /> An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland</b><br /> The 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. <i>Running Out</i> offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force.<br /> 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.<br /> An urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change, <i>Running Out</i> is a revelatory account of family, complicity, loss, and what it means to find your way back home.</p>. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Sociology. Media Type: eBook. National Book Award Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-26 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=59f6be9d-3de7-4354-b507-054977b725fa&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=59f6be9d-3de7-4354-b507-054977b725fa&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=59f6be9d-3de7-4354-b507-054977b725fa&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXGID