Re:Dam Project Threatens to Submerge Thousands of Years of T...
by Frogolocalypse on Sunday September 04, 2016 @03:06AM
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These people can't win. They try to remove the reliance upon oil and coal, and add surer supplies of water for their populace, and still people find reasons to criticize. As opposed to pumping more carbon into the atmosphere, thanks, I'll take the dam. Infrastructure to serve the living is far more useful than infrastructure to observe the dead.
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Re:Dam Project Threatens to Submerge Thousands of Years of T...
by enraged_camel on Sunday September 04, 2016 @08:22AM
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Environmentally, dams are hardly harmless. Just the opposite: they tend to have devastating consequences for the ecosystems they withhold water from downriver. Sure, they don't pump out carbon dioxide, but they cause lots of local damage.