Originally Posted by crockett

It's more like we should stop fucking up mother nature all around the country & the world.


I watched a show on PBS a few weeks ago about a small dam in some SC or GA city (I forget which). The dam much like many of them around the country was put in place by the Army Corp of Engineers (there are thousands of these all around the country, which no longer serve a purpose)

The city organizers decided after a lot of pressure for years from some local groups to remove the dam. The groups wanted to restore the natural white water sections of the river and then use that to help spur tourism.

They finally removed the dam and had to re-engineer some of the underlying rock as much had been removed when the dam was built. After doing this, they realized that wildlife was suddenly flourishing in the river. When they put the river back to the way it was supposed to be, it had a very positive affect on the habitat around it.

Due to this they are trying to push to remove more of these old dams from around the country, which no longer serve any purpose. The simple fact is, when man starts fucking with mother nature, we usually fuck it up. It took nature thousands of years to work out balance for ecosystems but it's only taken man a few 100 years to fuck it all up.