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Utah’s ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’
The Great Salt Lake is drying up.
Soaring demand for water, exacerbated by drought and higher temperatures in the region, are shrinking the waters, which play such a crucial role in the landscape, ecology and weather of Salt Lake City and Utah.
Can the lake be saved?
Guest: Christopher Flavelle, a climate reporter for The New York Times.
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Background reading:
- Utah’s dilemma raises a core question as the United States heats up: How quickly are Americans willing to adapt to the effects of climate change, even as those effects become urgent, obvious, and potentially catastrophic?
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