And China will build it for you.

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It only fucks the watershed.

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It fucks everything that relies on the watershed.

>insisting that hydro is not green and that it has terrible impacts on the environment.

I mean, anything you do at scale is going to have large impacts.

If people keep saying no to everything, then we aren't going to fix any problem.

Sometimes it seems people just want the electricity, but don't want it to come from anywhere.

The means justify the ends. Machiavelli had it bassackwards.

Minimal? Since when are river valleys appropriate to sacrifice? These places they propose to inundate are enormously important to a wide array of species. And the water is drying up anyway, all wafting up into a warming atmosphere. This is human-brand stupidity and I'll bet some small group of white males stands to profit from the scheme. Dismiss them and send in the wind and solar crews, who will displace WAYYY fewer flora and fauna and still yield up the energy required.

Yeah salmon disagree. And stuff that eats salmon. And trees that rely on salmon. And just about every fucking species that needs an unblocked river.

This is a lie. Hydro is environmentally destructive.