When Cookies Aren’t Enough
Lucy Moore · Island Press/Center for Resource Economics eBooks · 2013
Imagine there is a toxic waste pile of uranium tailings just a half mile from your house. The waste is leaking into the groundwater and moving in a “plume,” as the scientists call it, away from the site and fanning throughout the aquifer. You must haul drinking water from town because the state has condemned your well. Your family had been using that well forever, but one day the authorities suddenly decided that the levels of radium were dangerously high. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.