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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
by Frogolocalypse 10y ago
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.
- enraged_camel 10y agoEnvironmentally, 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.