City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Dead in the water, a very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe ... the death of the Murray-Darling Basin, Richard Beasley

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Dead in the water, a very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe ... the death of the Murray-Darling Basin, Richard Beasley
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Illustrations
maps
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Dead in the water
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Richard Beasley
Sub title
a very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe ... the death of the Murray-Darling Basin
Summary
Richard Beasley is fed up. He's fed up with vested interests killing off Australia's most precious water resource. He's fed up with the cowardice and negligence that has allowed Big Agriculture and irrigators to destroy a river system that can sustain both the environment and the communities that depend on it. He's fed up that a noble plan to save Murray-Darling Basin based on the 'best scientific knowledge' has instead been corroded by lies, the denial of climate change, pseudoscience and political expediency. He pulls no punches. He's provocative, he's outrageous, he points the finger without shame. And he will leave you very, very angry. Dead in the Water is political satire of the highest order . . . if weren't all so tragically true
Target audience
adult
Classification
Content