The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

by Dan Egan

She told me she fears any such restoration project only offers “false hope” and distracts the public’s attention from what she sees as the real issue—climate change causing the increased evaporation. “Some of the very same people who deny the reality of climate change being caused by our energy choices are the same people who say, ‘We want you to fix this,’ ” she said. “So on the one hand they say mankind is too small to impact Mother Nature—that forces of nature are much stronger than the impacts of man. Yet they somehow turn around and say, ‘OK, governments: put a plug in—engineer something, dredge something, dig out, blow up, modify.’ They don’t think man is too weak to engineer a fix, but they somehow say we’re not responsible for the cause.”