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Your Texas rice field looks like this? No problem, drill another well. (Photo by Terry Shuck/Flikr)
The next stop on our Last Chance Tour of a collapsing civilization: the Texas Panhandle. The land is turning into desert, the people are acting out the Tragedy of the Commons (a pretty way of describing the way humans fight for the last scrap of a vanishing resource), the government is making things worse and almost everybody is pretending nothing is happening at all. Continue reading
