As an environmentalist myself, the destruction of hydro-electric dams is low-IQ environmentalism.
Hydro is green, renewable energy with solid baseline capacity. The environmental benefits of a lake/reservoir far exceed the benefits of a river. The “environment” is more than just the unidimensional needs of a single species (salmon), and the ignorance on display every time hydro comes up in the “environmentalist community” would be astounding if it wasn’t so routine.
Not that it matters, because every dam we tear down will accelerate the carbonization of the atmosphere and acidification of the oceans your precious salmon need to live in anyways.
It’s hard to not be conspiratorial when clean, reliable energy like nuclear and hydro are demonized. Especially with ridiculous headlines like “restoring a tribe’s way of life”. Like really, how will their “way of life” be restored when the carbon-triggered methane runaway happens and turns the entire region into a desert?
Will this particular dam alone lead to this outcome? No. But decades of inmates running the asylum certainly will.
Hydro is green, renewable energy with solid baseline capacity. The environmental benefits of a lake/reservoir far exceed the benefits of a river. The “environment” is more than just the unidimensional needs of a single species (salmon), and the ignorance on display every time hydro comes up in the “environmentalist community” would be astounding if it wasn’t so routine.
Not that it matters, because every dam we tear down will accelerate the carbonization of the atmosphere and acidification of the oceans your precious salmon need to live in anyways.
It’s hard to not be conspiratorial when clean, reliable energy like nuclear and hydro are demonized. Especially with ridiculous headlines like “restoring a tribe’s way of life”. Like really, how will their “way of life” be restored when the carbon-triggered methane runaway happens and turns the entire region into a desert?
Will this particular dam alone lead to this outcome? No. But decades of inmates running the asylum certainly will.