Chaz TeplinNov 25, 2022
1/ Happy post-TG friends.
I just read a fascinating essay, "The Dammed Body" by Dr. Jenn Derr (@jenniferlderr). Dr. Derr's work is relevant to all of us working to rapidly build vast clean energy infrastructure.https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/publication/downloads/Daedalus_Fa21_08_Derr.pdf
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2/ Dr. Derr recounts how construction of a dam in 1902 along the Nile in Egypt led directly to a plague of serious diseases affecting the large populations that farmed the Nile’s shores.
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3/ Dr. Derr reveals how global and local forces, as well as good and not-so-good intentions, led to dam construction, unfair distribution of the dam’s economic benefits, and awful disease to the Egyptians living along the river.