A well balanced article finishes with a throw away final paragraph which is (imho) significant.
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Already the water's rise has prompted unexpected consequences. Millions of water rats have scampered up the banks, seeking succor in the new towns. That has sparked a mass campaign to kill them, and their carcasses, laden with poison, will now roll back into the reservoir.
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I believe this was actually a forseeable consequence not evaluated if considered at all
What other truly unexpected consequences will time expose?
Monumental tampering with nature might produce equivelent benefit without a higher price than that already paid.
I hope so
From what I have seen remain unconvinced.
I accept an Englishman has no right to pontificate, the river will have the final say.
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I have followed the thread with interest.
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Is the answer we simply do not know if the 'benefit' will prove worth the price ?
John Pomfret wrote an excellent piece in Monday's (2nd June) Washington Post (Page A11) under the heading 'Monumental Gamble'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A
A well balanced article finishes with a throw away final paragraph which is (imho) significant.
(Quote)
Already the water's rise has prompted unexpected consequences. Millions of water rats have scampered up the banks, seeking succor in the new towns. That has sparked a mass campaign to kill them, and their carcasses, laden with poison, will now roll back into the reservoir.
(End Quote)
I believe this was actually a forseeable consequence not evaluated if considered at all
What other truly unexpected consequences will time expose?
Monumental tampering with nature might produce equivelent benefit without a higher price than that already paid.
I hope so
From what I have seen remain unconvinced.
I accept an Englishman has no right to pontificate, the river will have the final say.