Invisibility of choice
Keywords:
environmental, awareness, history, interdisciplinary, dams, people, social, impacts, benefits, creative non fiction, power, decisionsAbstract
The purpose of this essay was to explore how dams have affected and shaped the town of Revelstoke, BC. In this piece, stories of long-term residents are juxtaposed with those of more recent immigrants to raise universal questions surrounding how all actions, big or small, field-planting or dam-building, resound with both benefits and detriments. Within the historical context of dam-building in a small mountain town, food security provides an especially vivid lens with which to consider our personal values as well as our obligations as local and global citizens. This creative nonfiction essay encapsulates both the authorâs research and personal experiences.
