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Is the environmental risk really serious or is the poverty going to cause people to damage the environment anyway? Perhaps the money would bring more resources
by kinnth 12y ago
Is the environmental risk really serious or is the poverty going to cause people to damage the environment anyway? Perhaps the money would bring more resources to protect the wildlife?
- benologist 12y agoI would think the environmental strain will be significantly higher with the construction and eventually ships - this is a country where most people don't own cars and shared modes of transport are used by everyone.
- msellout 12y agoIt'll certainly destroy a few if not hundreds or thousands of species. Transoceanic ships will bring strange species, displacing natives. The environmental studies will, among other things, try to model which species will be able to fend off the new competition, but ecologies can be chaotic (in the mathematical sense).
- brianbreslin 12y agoThe main source for the country is lake Nicaragua (which has bull sharks btw!) and they would be dredging this too. This would cause massive amounts of silt to cloud the water which would kill a lot of the fish/fauna. Not to mention there are going to be a lot of corners cut on this since it's Latin America and bribes will get paid (I'm Panamanian, I know how this stuff works).