Imagining California Talk: The Dreamt Land: How the Invention of California Became Miracle and Ruin
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesIn this talk, journalist Mark Arax will discuss how California's capture of land and water is the story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders and devastation it has wrought. It's a tale of magic and madness in the arid West, of genocide and endless extraction, of redirected rivers and ever higher dams and deeper wells, of imported workers left behind in the sun and the fatigued earth made to give more even ...
