http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/22/dams-may-degrade-one-of-chinas-remaining-healthy-rivers/ 80beats is DISCOVER\'s news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:41:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/22/dams-may-degrade-one-of-chinas-remaining-healthy-rivers/comment-page-1/#comment-28632 Black Feather Tue, 26 May 2009 20:34:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/22/dams-may-degrade-one-of-chinas-remaining-healthy-rivers/#comment-28632 Not a good idea. I always felt the Three Gorges Dam caused problems that are not apparent because no one is making a link between the dam and some catastrophes that occur in other parts of the World. Seems to me holding back that much water has to affect another part of the biosphere somehow. Water does much more than flow just as trees do more than make a place pretty. We all learned the water cycle science in junior high school. What do they teach engineers? I live in Texas where developers don't understand trees are the lungs of the Earth and so they cut them all down to make as many mini malls, house, highway as possible... the temperatures increase and we get less rain. The dried trees that pile up leave us open for wildfires . I recently read a news article where developers actually piled a large amount of cut down trees that had been cleared for housing at the foot of a park. Its all about the money and less about thinking of the possibilities for future problems created from these decisions. I hope I'm wrong about the dams but, its looks like a disaster in the making. What if?? should be the question before doing balancing acts with Nature. Not a good idea. I always felt the Three Gorges Dam caused problems that are not apparent because no one is making a link between the dam and some catastrophes that occur in other parts of the World. Seems to me holding back that much water has to affect another part of the biosphere somehow. Water does much more than flow just as trees do more than make a place pretty. We all learned the water cycle science in junior high school. What do they teach engineers? I live in Texas where developers don’t understand trees are the lungs of the Earth and so they cut them all down to make as many mini malls, house, highway as possible… the temperatures increase and we get less rain. The dried trees that pile up leave us open for wildfires . I recently read a news article where developers actually piled a large amount of cut down trees that had been cleared for housing at the foot of a park. Its all about the money and less about thinking of the possibilities for future problems created from these decisions. I hope I’m wrong about the dams but, its looks like a disaster in the making. What if?? should be the question before doing balancing acts with Nature.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/22/dams-may-degrade-one-of-chinas-remaining-healthy-rivers/comment-page-1/#comment-28559 johnn costello Mon, 25 May 2009 16:28:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/22/dams-may-degrade-one-of-chinas-remaining-healthy-rivers/#comment-28559 Will the end justify the means???? Will the end justify the means????

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/22/dams-may-degrade-one-of-chinas-remaining-healthy-rivers/comment-page-1/#comment-28557 Chris TMC Mon, 25 May 2009 16:07:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/22/dams-may-degrade-one-of-chinas-remaining-healthy-rivers/#comment-28557 Dams here in the USA caused the same kinds of problems. We did not know/care about the loss of biodiversity and displacing people when our nation developed in this way. Dams here in the USA caused the same kinds of problems.
We did not know/care about the loss of biodiversity and displacing people when our nation developed in this way.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/22/dams-may-degrade-one-of-chinas-remaining-healthy-rivers/comment-page-1/#comment-28554 p Mon, 25 May 2009 15:18:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/22/dams-may-degrade-one-of-chinas-remaining-healthy-rivers/#comment-28554 Too bad the people who it's going to affect don't have a say in things. Too bad the people who it’s going to affect don’t have a say in things.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/22/dams-may-degrade-one-of-chinas-remaining-healthy-rivers/comment-page-1/#comment-27855 Julian Fri, 22 May 2009 17:15:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/22/dams-may-degrade-one-of-chinas-remaining-healthy-rivers/#comment-27855 But what about the catfish, man?! But what about the catfish, man?!

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