Living water and whispering rocks: Books in brief
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Living water and whispering rocks: Books in brief
""Awakening yourself to the whispers of rock", she says, "can transform the way you connect with and understand the world"."
"Water is "not a resource to be extracted or managed, but a living relative, a system of memory, intelligence, and reciprocity", says landscape designer Julia Watson."
"Automation will "free people to undertake truly creative and satisfying work", but Mujica says that "robots work only for their masters!""
In 1902 on Saint Vincent, women reported boiling water in the La Soufrière crater accompanied by booming sounds and shaking; authorities ignored those warnings and 1,680 islanders died in the resulting eruption. The Lo-TEK perspective treats water as a living relative, a system of memory, intelligence, and reciprocity, and includes examples such as Bangladesh floating farms, Chinese dike-pond systems, and Micronesian tide-driven fish traps. Conversations between a prominent linguist and a political activist address climate risks, neo-fascism, and the wisdom of nature, including a disagreement over whether automation liberates creative work or chiefly benefits masters.
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