By Kristine C. Harper
In Make It Rain, Kristine C. Harper tells the lengthy and just a little ludicrous background of state-funded makes an attempt to regulate, control, and installation the elements in the United States. Harper exhibits that governments from the federal to the neighborhood grew to become helplessly captivated via the concept climate regulate might advertise agriculture, future health, business output, and monetary progress at domestic, or perhaps be used as an army weapon and diplomatic device in another country. transparent fog for touchdown airplane? There’s a venture for that. light rain for strawberries? Let’s do it! more suitable snowpacks for hydroelectric utilities? Check. The heyday of those climate keep watch over courses got here throughout the chilly warfare, because the surroundings got here to be noticeable as whatever to be defended, weaponized, and manipulated. but Harper demonstrates that at the present time there are transparent implications for our makes an attempt to resolve the issues of weather change.
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