Push the River, It Pushes Back - Kevin Fedarko, Author - DS Pod 277

Kevin Fedarko is a writer, journalist and river guide explores
the interface between wilderness and industrialization, most
recently through the lens of the Grand Canyon. Fedarko recently
published "A Walk In the Park," the story of his somewhat
ill-conceived but ultimately successful quest to walk the
trail-less expanse of desert wilderness that hides beneath the
canyon's rims. We talk about the struggle to tell a story about
the Colorado and the canyon that contains it that avoids the
conventional morality tale of environment good, technology bad;
the astonishing feat of engineering, unseen since the Great
Pyramids that holds back Lake Powell; the punishment of untrailed
nature; and the mythology of science, man as an island, and the
wilderness as something we both crave and fear. Sign up for our
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https://amzn.to/4g2cPVV (00:00) Go! (00:06:42) The Process of
Writing and Sharing (00:14:15) Parallels in Creative Industries
(00:18:51) Interplay of Wilderness and Modernity (00:23:03)
Natural vs. Industrial Forces (00:30:21) The 1983 Spillway Crisis
(00:35:22) Contradictions of Nature and Technology (00:40:44)
Stories Tell Themselves (00:47:00) How Humans Understand the
World (00:50:12) Science and Storytelling Paradox (01:01:03)
Challenges of Long-held Beliefs (01:09:57) River Dynamics and
Geology (01:13:58) The Great Unconformity (01:19:11) Hiking the
Grand Canyon (01:24:22) Trail Challenges (01:33:42) Navigating
the Desert (01:40:05) No Trail is Walked Alone (01:42:07) Nature
and Solitude (01:48:37) Deep Immersion #sciencepodcast,
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