Hydroelectric dams may jeopardize the Amazon's future

[rangerrebew]

Hydroelectric dams may jeopardize the Amazon's future
June 14, 2017
 

Hundreds of built and proposed hydroelectric dams may significantly harm life in and around the Amazon by trapping the flow of rich nutrients and modifying the climate from Central America to the Gulf of Mexico. These findings, published in Nature, emerge from a multidisciplinary, international collaboration of researchers from 10 universities, led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin.

To meet energy needs, economic developers in South America have proposed 428 hydroelectric dams, with 140 currently built or under construction, in the Amazon basin—the largest and most complex network of river channels in the world, which sustains the highest biodiversity on Earth. The rivers and surrounding forests are the source of 20 percent of the planet's fresh water and valuable ingredients used in modern medicine.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-hydroelectric-jeopardize-amazon-future.html#jCp

[driftdiver]

Shouldn't we let the people that live there determine what to do with the Amazon.   Isn't the force the environmentalists and lefties want to use to keep them in the dark ages a form of cultural appropriation?

[Wingnut]

Shouldn't we let the people that live there determine what to do with the Amazon.   Isn't the force the environmentalists and lefties want to use to keep them in the dark ages a form of cultural appropriation?

Excellent point.   

[Suppressed]

Shouldn't we let the people that live there determine what to do with the Amazon.   Isn't the force the environmentalists and lefties want to use to keep them in the dark ages a form of cultural appropriation?

Tragedy of the Commons.

[Joe Wooten]

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