Honorary Magazine 2018-19

H O N O R S C O L L E G E 2019 S P R I N G C O L L O Q U I U M

Thursday st February 21

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“Is what we are doing to the Great Lakes today going to leave our own great grandchil- dren equally baffled?” – Dan Egan

“Roughly 97 percent of the globe’s water is saltwater. Of the 3 percent or so that is fresh- water, most is locked up in the polar ice caps or trapped so far underground it is inacces- sible. And of the sliver left over that exists as surface freshwater readily available for human use, about 20 percent of that—one out of every five gallons available on the planet—can be found in the Great Lakes.” Dan Egan’s The Death and Life of the Great Lakes provided us with an opportunity to explore an important historical case study of being wrong and learning from mistakes at a societal level. Our management of an incredible resource has been plagued with errors and has imperiled the lakes that are a part of our way of life in the upper Midwest, as well as a crucial reservoir for life itself.

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