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I really hope you're being sarcastic. Building dams are environmentally devastating. Dams created a multi-billion dollar fertilizer industry in Egypt where none

I really hope you're being sarcastic. Building dams are environmentally devastating. Dams created a multi-billion dollar fertilizer industry in Egypt where none existed before adding them to the Nile. They blocks sediment on rivers, inhibits salmon from returning to their spawning grounds (even with the help of fish ladders). Any type of geoengineering at this type of scale would have some very large unintended blowback.

BatFastard 9y ago
I am not. Lets look at the trade offs. Each city doing a huge construction project to protect them selves from raising sea levels, or one huge dam. What you say about all of those side effects are true. But what are the effects of not doing anything?
- chr1 9y ago
  Indeed cities of mediterranean and baltic seas are luck to be able to escape raising sea levels by building on dam. But the sea level doesn't rise fast enough to motivate enough people to build a dam, so people will end up slowly leaving places that get inundated. But there is another way to prevent raising sea levels, which is moving that water into aquifers and lakes in places that are currently deserts. Huge deserts in Sahara Iran and Middle Asia can easily take the large chunk of water that is currently stored in polar caps. We just need to invest more in building large scale climate modifying structures, like solar towers, solar power plants, dams and canals.
  - sova 9y ago
    Hmmmm. Solar piping that gently draws water out over long distances?
  - BatFastard 9y ago
    Love the idea, but isn't it the same problem of boiling the frog?
- philtar 9y ago
  > Each city doing a huge construction project to protect them selves from raising sea levels, or one huge dam. That is most certainly not a thorough look at the trade offs, if that's what you were going for. If you were trying to be rhetorical and win the argument through the use of emotions, instead of reaching the truth through the use of reason, then you could have disguised it a little better.

BatFastard 9y ago

I am not. Lets look at the trade offs. Each city doing a huge construction project to protect them selves from raising sea levels, or one huge dam. What you say about all of those side effects are true. But what are the effects of not doing anything?

chr1 9y ago
Indeed cities of mediterranean and baltic seas are luck to be able to escape raising sea levels by building on dam. But the sea level doesn't rise fast enough to motivate enough people to build a dam, so people will end up slowly leaving places that get inundated. But there is another way to prevent raising sea levels, which is moving that water into aquifers and lakes in places that are currently deserts. Huge deserts in Sahara Iran and Middle Asia can easily take the large chunk of water that is currently stored in polar caps. We just need to invest more in building large scale climate modifying structures, like solar towers, solar power plants, dams and canals.
- sova 9y ago
  Hmmmm. Solar piping that gently draws water out over long distances?
- BatFastard 9y ago
  Love the idea, but isn't it the same problem of boiling the frog?
philtar 9y ago
> Each city doing a huge construction project to protect them selves from raising sea levels, or one huge dam. That is most certainly not a thorough look at the trade offs, if that's what you were going for. If you were trying to be rhetorical and win the argument through the use of emotions, instead of reaching the truth through the use of reason, then you could have disguised it a little better.