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Lädt ... Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Droughtvon James G. Workman
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The Bushmen of the Kalahari provide a cautionary tale about water in the 21st century--and offer unexpected solutions for our time. Author James G. Workman chronicles the saga of the Bushmen--remnants of one of the world's most successful cultures, today at the epicenter of Africa's drought--in their widely publicized recent battle with the government of Botswana, in the process of exploring the larger story of what many feel has become the primary resource battleground of the 21st century: the supply of water. Each year, around the world, inadequate water kills more humans than AIDS, malaria, and wars combined. Global leaders pray for rain; Bushmen tap more pragmatic solutions. Workman illuminates the present and coming tensions we will all face over water and shows how, from the remoteness of the Kalahari, an ancient and resilient people is showing the world a viable path through the encroaching Dry Age.--From publisher description. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Heart of Dryness is a narrative investigative journalism book. It covers the Bushman of the Kalahari in their conflict over water with the country of Botswana. Workman spent several years on the story and covers it in exhaustive detail. There are many controversial issues in this battle. Indigenous populations in game reserves. Hunting, ecotourism, diamond mining, relocation, culling elephants, and more. There is some anthropology but it's only one of the themes tracked here.
The focus is on Botswana's water situation but other water troubled places are brought up in a minor way. The problem with water is not so much precipitation but the use of aquifers and deep wells. This 'fossil water' can only be used once for all practical purposes and many of the uses of this water has not been done wisely over the last few decades. Limitations are being hit.
The Bushman point of view is covered mainly from a woman, Qoroxloo, who lived her whole life in the Kalahari. She is one of the 'old wise ones' whose knowledge is fast disappearing in a changing world. ( )