"What's coral ever done for me?" Said every man in Texas.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024
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between continuous oil spills, the Mississippi dead zone, and Florida red tides, coral in the Gulf doesn’t have to worry about the heat …
Don't forget bottom trawling!
They made our oceans so damn hot, they turned the friggin corals white!
I think at this point everyone who could care about the continued existence of coral or the large set of marine life that depends on it are already Voting for it. About the only change I can think of such events having is creating a greater acceptance of the local environmental inpacts created by lower carbon sources of energy like Hydro as the fish they inpacted die off anyway.
What is the impact of hydro on the local environment? Can you substantiate the impact on fish?
The short answer is that no fish ladder is 100% effective, and part of a river becoming a lake will always change the local ecosystem for better or worse. Both of these things arn’t new, not all fish have ever made it upstream and land slips create new lakes often enough, but they do have an impact.
You’re probably better off looking at one of the few major dam removal projects in California if you want to see the ecological arguments against hydro however, as I don’t think I can make a very good case when I personally think that combating gobal climate change should absolutely take priority over local effects.
Mostly because if we are building renewables as fast as ‘economically practically’ will allow, and we are still using coal and natural gas to generate significant amounts of electricity at any time, then shutting down ang renewable or low carbon generation like hydro or nuclear inherently means that load is being generated by coal and gas at cost of putting hundreds to thousands of metric tons of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere per day said plant is offline.