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Wow that's pretty fucked. No one would even dream of anything so crazy these days. The world certainly has improved in the past 90 years.
by batmansbelt 12y ago
Wow that's pretty fucked. No one would even dream of anything so crazy these days. The world certainly has improved in the past 90 years.
- wyager 12y agoWhat is "pretty fucked" about this?
- limsup 12y agoDude, it's totally fucked. Like removing the sea from seaside towns. i'm sure if you're a mediterranean fisherman you would not be happy having the sea forcibly moved away from your home... The environmental impact is probably immeasurable.
- wyager 12y agoHow is this any worse than normal dam construction, apart from scale?
- lolpep8 12y agoScale.
- smacktoward 12y agoHow is a flood worse than a drop of water, apart from scale?
- mavdi 12y agoWise words.
- twright 12y agoThere would be some pretty vast ecological repercussions. Fish habitats and coastal ecosystems, would be immediately affected. Then, connecting rivers will cut deeper, unforeseeably altering each and every environment they affect.
- sneak 12y agoIf the engineering effort fails, an incalculable amount of life and property would be destroyed. Even if it succeeds, a huge amount of costly adjustment would be required by a very, very large number of people.
- jqm 12y agoCeasing to dream big isn't an improvement. But ya... it's probably for the best the project didn't happen (yet:).
- batmansbelt 12y agoPeople still dream big, but the ideas that destroy millions of lives and ruin habitats are falling out of favour.