Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta : : A Call for Reclamation / / Ned Randolph.

• VerfasserIn: Randolph, Ned,
• Place / Publishing House: Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Land Acknowledgment --; Introduction: A Turn to Mud --; Interlude: Vignette --; 1. A Mudscape in Motion --; Interlude On the Mermantau --; 2. Muddy Foil --; Interlude Toledo Bend --; 3. The Villainous River --; Interlude Whose Paradise? --; 4 The Birth of River Science and Grassroots Greenwashing --; Interlude The Arrivals --; 5 The "Katrina Effect" and the Working Coast --; Interlude A Modest Proposal --; 6 Mud, Plastics, and Cancer Alley --; Interlude Landfall --; Conclusion: Stuck in the Mud --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• ISBN: 0520397215
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ned Randolph.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta uses the story of mud to answer a deceptively simple question: How can a place uniquely vulnerable to sea level rise be one of the nation's most promiscuous producers and consumers of fossil fuels? Organized around New Orleans and South Louisiana as a case study, this book examines how the unruly Mississippi River and its muddy delta shaped the people, culture, and governance of the region. It proposes a framework of ";muddy thinking"; to gum the wheels of extractive capitalism and pollution that have brought us to the precipice of planetary collapse. Muddy Thinking calls upon our dirty, shared histories to address urgent questions of mutual survival and care in a rapidly changing world.