Dead in the water
Subtitle: a very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe ... the death of the Murray-Darling Basin
By: Richard Beasley
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Crows Nest, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781760878450
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Water resources development; Government policy; Water-supply; Environmental aspects
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Confessions and other 'C' words; title: The Water Act 2007 ... (John) Howard's end; title: The great book burning; title: The great legal 'terror'; title: That's not an environmentally sustainable level of take ... just ask the CSIRO; title: The great 'postcode' fix; title: 'The best available heavily censored science'; title: 'How good is climate change denial'; title: 'Fake news' and the efficiency 'rort'; title: The Coorong ... 'I get zero gigalitres with a little help from my friends'?; title: The Basin Plan's 'confidence trick'; title: Water rustlers, floodplain harvesting and other theft; title: A very brief note on 'uncooperative federalism'; title: My Basin Plan.