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Published: June 15, 2021, 7 a.m.

Since the first levee was built in New Orleans in 1717, we have been trying to manage America\u2019s rivers. But now our infrastructure is failing. And if we don\u2019t compromise on a plan to restore (or strategically remove) our dams, levees, and locks and give our waterways more space, flooding events will continue to devastate entire communities over and over again.

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Tyler J. Kelley is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker, among many other national publications. His first book, Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America\u2019s Waterways, was published in April 2021. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Tyler joins Ross to explain why riverboat traffic is still important to the US economy, moving more than 1,000 semi-trucks\u2019 worth of vital commodities daily.

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Tyler discusses the extensive work we\u2019ve done to manage rivers in the US, describing how much land would be unlivable without levees and why the risks of flooding will only increase with climate change. Listen in for Tyler\u2019s insight on the Dutch Delta Works project to give land back to the rivers and fortify existing infrastructure and learn how we might create a similar comprehensive flood control plan to protect communities here in the US.

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Resources

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Holding Back the River: The Struggle Against Nature on America\u2019s Waterways by Tyler J. Kelley

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Tyler\u2019s Website

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\u2018The Fight to Tame a Swelling River with Dams That May Be Outmatched by Climate Change\u2019 in The New York Times

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Elizabeth Kolbert on Reversing Climate Change S2EP50

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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert

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Levee Wars on Sny Island

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Rebuild Pinhook

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