Hydro power (i.e. dams) is the only “gravity” system worth exploiting. But nooooo....dams kill the little fishies.
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The 1930s Hydro dams (construction began at Grand Coulee and Bonneville in 1933; Bonneville was completed in 1938 and Grand Coulee in 1941) on the Columbia River killed off the second largest run of Sockeye salmon in the world after Bristol Bay, Alaska where the push for a gigantic placer (open pit) mine threatens the existence of that run of sockeye. People eat salmon.
Hydro dams on the Columbia River killed a primary source of food in America, contributing to major job losses in the commercial fishing industry, as well as contributing to the US loss of self-sufficiency in food production (helping the US become a net importer of food) and lowering the US Balance of Trade drastically.
You cannot live, if you cannot eat. Killing your sources of food is always a bad idea, like burying prime top soil farmland under 20 feet of fill to make shopping centers and parking lots ; unless people like importing their food from Canada, Mexico, various South American countries, China and elsewhere. Dependency on foreign sources of food is even more disastrous a policy than depending of foreign countries to manufacture essential goods.
“Little fishies,” indeed!
No dams, no electricity (that you could afford). No electricity, no nothing else.
Good luck trying to find a new recipe on the computer for cooking those fish (or commenting on FR about anything). Or in the newspaper. Or even trying to read the recipe someone wrote down for you. Or having clean water to wash your hands before cooking. Or even cooking the fish.
Yeah, it was a food source for Native Americans. Odd how so many of them have adopted the use of electricity and the attendant modern conveniences and benefits in their lives. Hardly their historical lifestyle. Not to mention all the casinos needing electricity to soak money out of the Whites.
Major part of the fish problem is over-fishing/wastage, and over-loaded, unattended fish traps in the river. Fix that first.
Such crap.
Asia fishing up their own territorial waters , then other countries.
Lying econazi wildlife biologists.
Flooding wiped out massive life and business and agriculture land before dams and flood control.
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So THAT’S why I can’t find salmon in the store for the last 40 years.
Pffffft.
“You cannot live, if you cannot eat. “
Talk about a myopic and truly moronic view of things!
So because of dams and other energy sources we can longer eat?
It’s completely the opposite - it’s because of all the energy production by all sources that food has become so plentyful and cheap. So much so that obesity has become a big problem, not starvation.
And more energy results in a higher standard of living and a cleaner environment.
You want to see a starving population, slums, pollution and a filthy environment go to any third world country with little or no energy sources.
“Little fishies,” indeed!
Besides, the fish are still there aren’t they?
I would bet you prefer going to the grocery store rather than getting your own salmon to eat.
Like a liberal, looking at only one part of a system, leads to bad decisions.