The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan (W.W. Norton & Co., 2017, 364p)

摘要

LATELY MY ONLY connection to the Great Lakes has been to scold people who claim that the Great Lakes hold 20% of Earth's freshwater. For that to be true you need to insert 'liquid surface' or at least 'surface,' as a modifier to 'freshwater.' You can bet Dan Egan, the award-winning Great Lakes reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, doesn't make the aforementioned mistake nor any others that I could detect. As a WaterWonk who grew up in a Great Lakes state (New York) I admit to a fascination with the Great Lakes but a distinct lack of knowledge about such a huge body of water. Egan not only more than sated my knowledge gap but also left me with a sense of wonderment and concern for the Great Lakes and their future. My concern is further amplified when I hear and read reports of cuts in Great Lakes funding by the U.S. federal government.