![]() You know, if it doesn’t end in having your arm ripped off in the sewer, it’s not a very good story. You’ve got to break the dam and then you’re running, chasing your thing down the gutter until it goes down the sewer and. And of course, the next thing you do is you each get a stick or a pine straw and put it behind the dam and you’re off to the races. And so we would take rocks and dirt and leaves and whatever, and then make a big dam of the gutter. ![]() And it would fill the gutters in our neighborhood with like – you’d have this miniature stream in the gutter. You’d get these really gnarly thunderstorms come through. So we would have a big storm event in the summer. So you know, anytime you tell a cool California story, I can always give you the hick version from Georgia from my past. But anyway, I just remember being enthralled all day, like putting rocks and sticks, and I was diverting the river and creating these new channels on the side of it. ![]() ![]() It was probably the late 70s or something like that. Yeah, there were storm events and rivers would. Well that’s when there was actually freshwater running in California. I just remember spending all day getting sunburned. Anyhow, one of my fondest memories of the beach was this day that we went down to this river that was coming into the ocean. The Geoducks (Gooey Ducks) are pretty good. I know that UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug – fantastic. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and the nearest beach town to me was Santa Cruz. At the time, the estimated carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere was 250 parts per million and the global human population was 5 million. The watershed moment took place 10,000 years ago. Today’s episode is about the taming of water, the flood of problems that have flowed through the centuries from all our damming and plumbing, and the actions we can take to change course. In this season of Crazy Town, Jason, Asher, and Rob are exploring the watershed moments in history that have led humanity into the cascading crises we face in the 21st century. Welcome to Crazy Town where the heating element on your toilet seat uses enough energy to power a small village in Asia. For episode notes and more information, please visit our website. Can we learn to treat this most precious of resources in a way that achieves sustainability? Beware of severe pun overshoot in this episode. What we do with water matters even more in the era of global warming. And in so doing, we’ve changed the environment, both aquatic and terrestrial, and we’ve changed the course of human history. From irrigating fields to building canals to damming waterways to bringing water into our buildings, we’ve engineered more and more complex ways to tame water. People have a long history of trying to control water, like when the Roman emperor Plumpus Crackus built the Cloaca Maxima (only one of those names is made up) to transfer sewage into the Tiber River. Season 4 of the Crazy Town podcast launches with episode 48, which explores humanity’s tempestuous relationship with water.
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