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More than Nature is at work

Submitted: Sep 12, 2008

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Badlands Journal editorial board

Throwing in the towel: In this graphic of the Sacramento Delta region, light blue indicates low-lying land masses--mostly farmland--that research suggests should be surrendered to the sea the next time the levees protecting them break. Yellow indicates borderline cases.
Credit: Jay Lund -- Technology Review (MIT), Sept. 11, 2008

The map above is the essence of a recent article by the MIT's Technology Review:

Technology Review (MIT)
A Strategy for Coping with Climate Change
Amid rising seas, a California modeling effort recommends abandoning land tracts in the Sacramento Delta...David Talbot...9-11-08
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/21363/page1/

The study to which the MIT journal refers is the Public Policy Institute of California's already infamous "Comparing Futures for the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta," http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_708EHR.pdf, which provides the University of California's technological justification for a peripheral canal.

One comment on the MIT article, unusually literate and sensible for a technological journal, struck our eye, in part because it was written by a frequent contributor to Badlands Journal, Dan Essman: