• TechieDamien@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    We can’t beat nature on this one. All our attempts to prevent flooding are expensive and just move the issue elsewhere. Working with nature is the way to go.

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      1 year ago

      We have literally beat nature on this one. Basically every advanced society’s first step into being an advanced society is building up a network of dams and reservoirs that control their rivers.

      This is not some hideous expensive failed project, this is one of the most successful enterprises that every society in the course of humankind has done.

      This is like saying that farming is a failure.