The authors say their big worry is that many of the bigger projects will do irreparable damage to the major rivers on which they are likely to be built.

that's what rivers do

they change

we speed up the process like a hundred or a thousand years for a small part of it

which is tiny

an unnoticeable blip in time

except if it affects the people who depend on the river, it's not a blip to them

it's not creating a nuclear wasteland, it's changing the biome from woodland/jungle/whatever, to river/lake

we have a dam up here that's being protested

and I went down south and everyone is protesting it

and I'm like "what the fuck, where do you idiots think your power is coming from?"

Either way, *why the hell are we telling the third world how to industrialize their nations??*

Cuz we know how it's done

So?

So they can learn from us

Or would they rather still live in mud huts?

Sure, they can come here, get educated and then go back

Uh, no

hold it right there pal

We can just tell them what we did

because we got

And how we did it

Like intellectual foreign aid

But the niggers stay where they are

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@Deleted User I think you're missing the context here.

Some of these international environmental treaties force the third world to act a certain way, or prevent them from using certain resources in a manner we consider "unclean"

Oh, well

My bad then

I just finished a lecture and I saw the last bit of the convo

you pretty much saw the whole thing, we just started

Yeah, the article was about how building dams in industrializing nations is "bad"

I was bitching about people not wanting hydroelectric dams

Well, I guess the West has some kind of interest in keeping third world countries as shitholes

Yes, let's prevent sub Sahara Africa from using coal, diesel, or hydro electric

Cuz if we industrialise them they will start using their own oil xD

and i just said it wasnt without consequences

And we won't be able to bring democracy there anymore

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in order to advance, we will need to permanently affect parts of the landscape by turning them into sustainable sources of electricity