5/30/2023 0 Comments The water knife review![]() ![]() Regional civil order breaks down.Ĭould civil order really fray so rapidly? Well, here in the real world there’s been a catastrophic drought in Syria for the past several years that resulted in widespread crop failures. The mass migration is on, and states begin to defend their borders against refugees. ![]() ![]() In fact, once the bottom drops out on southern and western cities, there are a whole lot of people whose real estate becomes worthless and whose jobs dry up as well. However, technology costs money, and not everyone has money. ‘arcologies’ - sealed biomes that use natural symbiotic processes to recirculate water with great efficiency). uninhabitable without the aid of advanced technologies (e.g. He paints a believable world where climate change and overuse of aquifers have combined to render much of the southern and western U.S. It’s clear Bacigalupi has done his research (and the acknowledgments reflect this). ![]() TWK is all at once entertaining, imaginative, and thought-provoking. In fact, Cadillac Desert is held up as a prophetic tome by several of the characters in The Water Knife (TWK) - and understandably so. Those who’ve read the non-fiction book Cadillac Desert (1986) by Marc Reisner might not be too shocked by the world Bacigalupi depicts. ![]()
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