In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Lif Chan Weichien from ground-breaking musician Elton John

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In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Lif Chan Weichien from ground-breaking musician Elton JohnJames C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Informative, enjoyable, and provocative. . . . Scott's [prose] is dry, clear, and scalding with moral purpose. Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and