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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (2017)

por Dan Egan

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"The Great Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior--hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan's compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come. For thousands of years the pristine Great Lakes were separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the roaring Niagara Falls and from the Mississippi River basin by a "sub-continental divide." Beginning in the late 1800s, these barriers were circumvented to attract oceangoing freighters from the Atlantic and to allow Chicago's sewage to float out to the Mississippi. These were engineering marvels in their time--and the changes in Chicago arrested a deadly cycle of waterborne illnesses--but they have had horrendous unforeseen consequences. Egan provides a chilling account of how sea lamprey, zebra and quagga mussels and other invaders have made their way into the lakes, decimating native species and largely destroying the age-old ecosystem. And because the lakes are no longer isolated, the invaders now threaten water intake pipes, hydroelectric dams and other infrastructure across the country. Egan also explores why outbreaks of toxic algae stemming from the overapplication of farm fertilizer have left massive biological "dead zones" that threaten the supply of fresh water. He examines fluctuations in the levels of the lakes caused by manmade climate change and overzealous dredging of shipping channels. And he reports on the chronic threats to siphon off Great Lakes water to slake drier regions of America or to be sold abroad. In an age when dire problems like the Flint water crisis or the California drought bring ever more attention to the indispensability of safe, clean, easily available Water, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is a powerful paean to what is arguably our most precious resource, an urgent examination of what threatens it and a convincing call to arms about the relatively simple things we need to do to protect it."--Dust jacket.… (más)
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This is a good book that could have been much better, without the repetitions that occur in pairs of chapters, and if the organization was a bit better. The first section and the last section are good, but the middle section (the back door) isn't really about the back door mostly, it's a bit of a mishmash of topics that don't fit in the other two sections. ( )
  danielskatz | Dec 26, 2023 |
Excellently written and researched, inclusive of all regional viewpoints without a lot of bias, devastating and slightly hopeful. ( )
  Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 |
Excellent overview of how water comes into and leaves the Great Lakes, sometimes in natural ways and sometimes in manmade ways, and how they affect lake levels; and how the ecology and fish populations are changing in natural and manmade ways. ( )
  eg4209 | Apr 9, 2023 |
The (mis)management of the Great Lakes has been so terrible that they might actually be better off if we'd just stuck to not managing them at all.

If you think I am exaggerating, read this book. If you want to get so angry at some of the players in this tragicomedy, so angry that you will wish you could go back in time and beat them within an inch of their life (or just find them in the present -- some are still alive; handy, eh?), read this. However, after reading this, you might be so depressed by the whole thing you find you lack the energy to beat anyone to within an inch of anything.

At the same time, we have so grossly, evilly, and selfishly mismanaged and polluted all the Earth's waters, you might, as you are reading this, just nod and say, "Par for the course," to yourself.

Better though would be that if you care about the Great Lakes and you read this and it does indeed make you angry, channel that anger into contacting your state legislator(s) and governor and tell them that perhaps, just maybe, the primary goal of managing the Lakes ought not to be stocking them with the most exciting fish to catch (something only 10% of Americans do) and hiding behind wildly overblown, decades old estimates of what it would take re-isolate the Lakes from the oceans. ( )
  qaphsiel | Feb 20, 2023 |
Could have been shorter, but he loved the topic enough that it was OK being long. ( )
  jcvogan1 | Feb 13, 2023 |
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"The Great Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior--hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan's compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come. For thousands of years the pristine Great Lakes were separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the roaring Niagara Falls and from the Mississippi River basin by a "sub-continental divide." Beginning in the late 1800s, these barriers were circumvented to attract oceangoing freighters from the Atlantic and to allow Chicago's sewage to float out to the Mississippi. These were engineering marvels in their time--and the changes in Chicago arrested a deadly cycle of waterborne illnesses--but they have had horrendous unforeseen consequences. Egan provides a chilling account of how sea lamprey, zebra and quagga mussels and other invaders have made their way into the lakes, decimating native species and largely destroying the age-old ecosystem. And because the lakes are no longer isolated, the invaders now threaten water intake pipes, hydroelectric dams and other infrastructure across the country. Egan also explores why outbreaks of toxic algae stemming from the overapplication of farm fertilizer have left massive biological "dead zones" that threaten the supply of fresh water. He examines fluctuations in the levels of the lakes caused by manmade climate change and overzealous dredging of shipping channels. And he reports on the chronic threats to siphon off Great Lakes water to slake drier regions of America or to be sold abroad. In an age when dire problems like the Flint water crisis or the California drought bring ever more attention to the indispensability of safe, clean, easily available Water, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is a powerful paean to what is arguably our most precious resource, an urgent examination of what threatens it and a convincing call to arms about the relatively simple things we need to do to protect it."--Dust jacket.

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