Bradley
asked
Paolo Bacigalupi:
What's the most horrifying statistic or article you found while researching for THE WATER KNIFE? What's the more horrifying bit of speculation in THE WATER KNIFE that you fear will actually come to pass?
Paolo Bacigalupi
Probably the most horrifying thing to me is that almost ten years ago, when I wrote "The Tamarisk Hunter," it was already apparent that water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell were dropping. We've been able to see our vulnerability to water scarcity to climate change for quite a long time, and yet we've avoided facing it. At this point, Lake Mead is hitting record lows.
Now that the California drought is happening, people are finally paying attention to these kinds of vulnerabilities, but the scary thing to me is that we tend to pay attention to our dangers only when they're already heavy upon us.
Now that the California drought is happening, people are finally paying attention to these kinds of vulnerabilities, but the scary thing to me is that we tend to pay attention to our dangers only when they're already heavy upon us.
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