BLDBLOG profiles a project by Andrew Kudless of Matsys that “combines an interest in drought hydropolitics in the U.S. southwest with the speculative architecture of ‘underground water banks.’”
It is frightening to consider how possible the science fiction of novels like Dune have become now. It seems clear that evaluating the capacity of the planet for human habitation on the basis of square miles is just not the right perspective. Areas like the southwest are unable- without human intervention and diversion of resources from another location- to sustain long-term human infrastructure.
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