![]() ![]() "A Dangerous Place" is the last public testament of the late Marc Reisner, whose landmark book " Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water" should continue to shape debate about the West's future for as long as people are fool enough to live here. But a sobering new book has just arrived that should scare every living Californian silly - and it was written by one of our own. Most Californians have had a bellyful of hearing how unnatural it is to live here, coming as it usually does from people who spend half the year putting on six layers of clothing just to fetch the morning paper. What if the pioneers had settled America from west to east - from California toward the Atlantic - instead of the other way around? Just for starters, we'd probably see way more statistics calculating the economic destructiveness of nature's most underestimated act of God: winter. ![]()
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