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How Water Shaped Humanity with Giulio Boccaletti

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Promise of Total Control

The climate system is extremely variable, and for the vast majority ofa human history, sedentary human history, a fircivl acceptance was a big part of adaptation. And there was sense in which human society is will have to rule along with what nature provided. The progressive yeara came along, and it was a verycieconomic promise. It was a promise of prosperity. A promise of wealthy. Sona about water. What caretim i know the version of the story i've heard, but you know a lot more about it than met.What characterizes that modern estiproach, total control rights andthe promise of total control. Modernist theory.

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