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Propaganda and the Rhetoric of the Ruataniwha Dam
“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” George Orwell I was taught propaganda at school. Our English master, Mr Brown, liked words. He had an inspirational … Continue reading
Instead of Dam Thinking from the 50s, Look to the Landscape
In the lowlands of the Otago Peninsula, within the hill streams that flow into the harbour, there are water wheels. They stand as monuments to what once was, to what ‘functions’ there once were within our society, and – vitally … Continue reading
Posted in Land Use, Thought Pieces, Water retention
Tagged irrigation, land use history, landscape water, water management, water pattern
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