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Major environmental projects, the type that are big enough to effect local weather and ecosystems, do you approve of them?
If someone suggested that to alleviate global sea level rise, whole areas could be flooded with seawater, would you approve?
For example refilling the dead sea, or how about flooding the Qattara Depression or Death Valley.
With the effects that these would have on many things, would you approve?
Considering that the practice robs one area of rain in favour of another, Do you approve of cloud seeding?
I'd be pretty skeptical of any project like that. There are enough variables that we couldn't possibly account for all of them, and we'd be bound to screw something up worse than when we started.
I agree with Stubblejumper. The mega Projects like NAWAPA (google it) have far too many unknowns to allow responsible Environmental Engineering. What you expected is not likely to be what you get.
I think everything the human race has done and is doing to the world already is messing things up more that we know.
Even a town or city could be viewed as an environmental project, be it a negative one, maybe.
Every single drainage ditch or flood relief scheme messes something up.
The only instance I can think of when we actually remove water is in tar sands drilling, where they inject water in to bring up the oil. Other than that, any water we take does eventually go back. Perhaps not in the state it ought to, but that's a different issue all together.
The only instance I can think of when we actually remove water is in tar sands drilling, where they inject water in to bring up the oil. Other than that, any water we take does eventually go back. Perhaps not in the state it ought to, but that's a different issue all together.
I was referring to water that is removed by drainage and flood relief schemes, that rather than being allowed to sit and evaporate naturally or seep into the water table, is quickly passed to another area or the sea.
Everything has a knock on effect, but not always an obvious one.
Ok, we have messed the world up in a bad way already, now, how about messing it up in a good way.
How about alleviating see level rise by dumping water in areas below sea level, and maybe by hydroelectric, get some clean electricity into the bargain.
This may be a big step, but in the majority of these areas, there is nothing of real benefit to anyone anyway.
Now add to this the effect that doing such things will have on the weather, and it could all get really interesting, ( higher humidity, lower temperatures, increased rainfall ).
What have we got to lose?
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