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I hate dams. They wreck the land by interrupting the flood cycle and wreck the river by creating an impassible barrier. Fuck flood control, we just need to build in areas that are safe, and treat flood-prone areas as the natural gift that they are. Way too many river valleys have been destroyed in the name of false security and costly electricity.
user-inactivated · 3906 days ago · link ·
Let us not forget one of the great crimes of modern history.
teamramonycajal · 3907 days ago · link ·
New Orleans should never have existed, really, although that's not a dam issue (more a levee issue, and I don't know how the levees have affected the environment). But they are stupidly flood-prone. EDIT: There is a heightened flood risk in western Minnesota, too. I don't know why.