{"id":252642,"date":"2024-06-17T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/downstream-effects-the-cautionary-tale-of-the-mississippi-river\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T12:38:11","slug":"downstream-effects-the-cautionary-tale-of-the-mississippi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/downstream-effects-the-cautionary-tale-of-the-mississippi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Downstream effects: The cautionary tale of the Mississippi River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">In an often-excerpted passage from his memoir <em>Life on the Mississippi<\/em>, Mark Twain describes how his perceptions of the Mississippi River changed after he spent months piloting a steamboat up and down its muddy length. \u201cThe face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book,\u201d he says, allowing him to read the bends and eddies that meant nothing to his passengers. But the tragedy of this \u201cvaluable acquisition\u201d was that \u201cthe romance and the beauty were all gone from the river.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">\u201cAll the value any feature of it had for me now was the amount of usefulness it could furnish toward compassing the safe piloting of a steamboat,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Even for those of us who will never pilot a steamboat, there is a vestigial lesson in this passage about how we perceive and talk about the environment. 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