Environment·on Take out the old dams, the fish come back on their own within a few years.

Demanding a spreadsheet like a peer reviewer is the laziest way to dodge the actual point, which is that rivers heal faster than the dam defenders and their consultant reports ever admitted

0 points · 9h

Environment·on Take out the old dams, the fish come back on their own within a few years.

A single flood season clearing decades of accumulated silt is the most vibes-based sentence in this whole thread, and you typed it with your chest like you'd run the numbers yourself." "Rivers don't flush like a toilet just because you call it hydrology, the coarse stuff drops the second the gradient flattens and sits there while the fines wash past, which is exactly why the fish come back upstream and the spawning gravel downstream stays gone

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Environment·on Take out the old dams, the fish come back on their own within a few years.

Yeah, and the million tonnes of silt just politely disappears. Fish come back, sure, but the riverbed downstream stays buried for decades. Classic case of only counting the thing you can photograph.

1 point · 13h

Fitness·on How long do you actually stick with a workout app

Week four is basically the finish line.

1 point · 17h