Comments on: When the rivers run dry – review

By: The Future of Managing Water in our Landscapes – Go Local Scale | Chris Perley's Blog

Sun, 12 Mar 2017 05:50:49 +0000

[…] come out in critique of the Western mechanical paradigm of industrial scale. I especially like Fred Pearce’s When the Rivers Run Dry, and the recently published A River Runs Again by Meera […]

By: Apologie du bœuf. « La Voie du Banyan

Apologie du bœuf. « La Voie du Banyan — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:51:31 +0000

[…] water consumption is big (instant data from Fred Pearce’s book: 11,000 litres “to grow the feed for enough cow to make a quarter pound [100g] hamburger” […]

By: Ten top trends from the World Future Society « thenextwave

Ten top trends from the World Future Society « thenextwave — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:45:37 +0000

[…] Actually, this first point is oddly made; we had more oil than we knew what to do with for most of the 20th century. Reading the WFS summary, the point seems to be about water as the source of big infrastructure projects. But one of the main sources of current water shortages has been the belief by engineers that water shortages can be fixed by big infrastructure projects (see the Three Gorges project, for example). As Fred Pearce argues in When The Rivers Run Dry. […]

By: Beef - starting on the road to disapproval? « thenextwave

Beef - starting on the road to disapproval? « thenextwave — Thu, 24 May 2007 08:41:36 +0000

[…] water consumption is big (instant data from Fred Pearce’s book: 11,000 litres “to grow the feed for enough cow to make a quarter pound hamburger” – […]

By: Up to one billion refugees from climate change? « thenextwave

Up to one billion refugees from climate change? « thenextwave — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:45:12 +0000

[…] book When The River Runs Dry, published in paperback last month, and which I summarised in another post, as typically being counterproductive (at least in the medium to long term) in managing water or […]