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Environment & Energy

NNadir

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5. Ow! I wasn't familiar with that one. With the destruction of the planetary atmosphere, now well underway...

Reply to hatrack (Reply #4)

Sun Oct 5, 2025, 10:57 AM

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...I have been wondering about the water supplies of East Asia, India, China, and even SE Asia, because of the fragility of the Himalayan glaciers.

I expect I won't live to see the outcome as I only have a few years left, but I worry for the generations of my sons and beyond.

It's unfucking believable.

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450 US Hydropower Sites Due For Relicensing In Next 10 Years; Average US Dam Age Is 65 Years [View all] hatrack Sunday OP

The reality is that hydropower is about to become very erratic because of the destruction of the planetary atmosphere. NNadir Sunday #1

To paraphrase a bit, sedimentation falls upon the just and unjust alike . . . hatrack Sunday #2

I'm not familiar with that one, but the one that scares me the most is, of course, the Three Gorges dam. NNadir Sunday #3

Wait until you see what they're building on the Yarlang Tsangpo . . . hatrack Sunday #4

Ow! I wasn't familiar with that one. With the destruction of the planetary atmosphere, now well underway... NNadir Sunday #5