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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

several dams on the east coast of the US at extremely obvious points to prevent flooding

it's a bad idea because New York City doesn't fucking deserve it and the entire climate-denial political class (which is the entire political class) would raise fascist hell to prevent their own fucking homes from being embraced by the sea

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

bastards won't build an eighth of the infrastructure the fucking dutch have for a (NYC metro) population larger than the entire fucking country of the netherlands

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I assume you're talking about damming the Hudson? I feel like this is a bad idea because the Hudson is an estuary. I don't know much about dams but would a dam fuck up that ecosystem? There are no dams on the Hudson below where it becomes estuarial.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

used the word "dam" but flood control works like that aren't proper block-all-the-water dams

still fucks up the ecosystem but prbably less than displscing millions of people and submerging tons of industrial waste

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago