Elizabeth Kolbert's "Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future"
LA Review of Books
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The Flooding of the Mississippi River
The city of new orleans is protected by billions of dollars worth of flood controls. But it's still there 300 years later, but it's sinking very fast. Ere going to have to try to spread some of the sediment in the mississippi over the land so that we can prevent the whole place from sinking away. We return now to our conversation with elizabeth colbert, author of "Under a white sky"
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