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"Rivers of Power"was published in 2020. It covers humans' history with rivers from some of the earliest civilizations to the most powerful nations today and how water is possibly the greatest natural capital.
Rivers, their water and their usefulness for society has not changed. What is changing is how humans can and do move that water from source to a place of use. This episode explores great canals that are under construction, massive dams that are creating international tensions, efforts to use water over and over and over.
Our human relationship with rivers is ongoing and morphing and simultaneously static. Dr. Smith seems to know this and is able to explain this through cultures and time.
Dr. Laurence C. Smith was a professor at UCLA for 20 years in the Geography Department and now teaches at Brown University. He also conducts research in the northern arctic learning about rivers that form from the ice melt of glaciers.
Videos and links of Dr. Smiths arctic work and research:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/what-a-glacial-river-reveals-about-the-greenland-ice-sheet
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/27/world/greenland-is-melting-away.html
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