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Water and Civilization: Resilience and Collapse

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🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Water is essential for life, and throughout history we have sought to control and make use of it. As Giulio Boccaletti explores in his new book, Water: A Biography, that relationship with water has underpinned human civilization, forming an integral part of society, government and land use systems. But despite its essential nature, access to water has never been equal or entirely fair.  Climate disruption will further destabilize the systems we’ve built to control water in our environment – even as it remains a public good without fair and equal public access. What can 10,000 years of history teach us about how we should handle water in our current and future climate? Guests: Giulio Boccaletti, Author, Water: A Biography Sara Aminzadeh, Vice President of Partnerships, U.S. Water Alliance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Climate 1. I'm Greg Dalton. Many modern humans have lost connection with the essence of life,

0:27.8

water. In the last 60, 70 years, not more than that, people have sort of been living under this illusion

0:34.4

that water comes out of the tap, that's its origin, and that, you know,

0:38.6

it's perfectly normal to leave your home and not have to wade a stream. That hasn't been true

0:44.4

for 10,000 years. Most people, most of the time, encountered water and its variability on a daily

0:50.0

basis, and therefore adopted strategies to be resilient. How can we rethink our relationship with

0:56.1

water and build resilience into our systems as we experience increased climate disruption?

1:01.4

You know, everyone uses water, of course, but it wasn't thought of as something that we needed

1:05.3

to prioritize and elevate and talk about and think about. And so the one water movement seeks to change that.

1:13.6

What can the past teach us about living with water?

1:16.6

Climate One's empowering conversations connect all aspects of the climate emergency.

1:21.6

As the Glasgow Climate Summit approaches in November,

1:24.6

we're taking a look at what's on the agenda and who's at the table.

1:28.6

There's a growing push among environmentalists to decolonize climate negotiations such as COP26.

1:35.0

Such groups say Western countries' monopoly over the climate agenda smacks of colonial hangover

1:40.0

and will force those least responsible for the climate crisis to pay the cost of it first.

1:46.0

Climate One correspondent Amman Azar explains,

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