Maybe Bob Brown was right about one thing. That is that - it's possible to have too many dams.
Trouble is the one good point he made seems to have stopped him realizing that he is still a s silly and as ignorant as most of us and he has not shown any wisdom by resisting the trend in our age to give all dams a bad name.
Worse as a movement. like so many baby Greens shoots they think they know enough to work in the court of human beings when their misanthropy, immaturity, pride and ignorance will only ever create war with the deep truths of nature. And their pride continues to stand in the road of those who know how its profound chemistry and physics must be studied and respected>
They too of course forget the toughest and most evil beast of all; human nature itself .
Jung said the only remaining problem for man is man himself.
THE FLOODS OF early 2024
Not one of our polys have never known what they are doing here, but they keep fiddling and meddling with flows, walls and gates. Finally in 2020's, God had the last say and allowed the horse to bolt in its naturally productive time honored way.
Yet nobody is happy.
Nobody is now sure they want rejuvenation when it's at the cost of huge floods, silt and bedload movement, but that is exactly what is needed to reset the redgum and the other seeds in the wetlands. Make up your minds people , http://cuttingedgecare.blogspot.com.
Our dam creations have, for the first time in decades, played their noninterventionist role by just being pools in the stream flow. Our gates were never going to be opened enough to even create the Environmental Pissing Flows planned by Burke and other burk's, so the huge events needed to get wetlands to rejuvenate, meant the storages stayed close to full till this summer,
Naturally, because of the perversity of men's minds and the predictability of natural forces, these very useful drought, irrigation, power and flood detention storages remain close to full because no one dares to create the sort of flood, bed loads and silt deposition that upsets those riverside visitors who haven't yet lived there long enough to know how to really live with and respect nature.
Thursday, January 11, 2024
The trouble with dams
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Less can be more .
I just posted a response to a question about why its Ok to cull animals in Australia.They would starve and suffer otherwise just like they do in other Savannah ecosystems like Africa .
In African savannah the rain and food supply is even more regular and predictable than ours
Culling is Not easy to do but farmers have to do it with sheep when their teeth wear out and the wet season in our Savannah is long gone.
The smart kid in kindergarten might say "build more dams for them" and the massive bird population that is possible .
Which is exactly what we have done ( holes to make banks for roads ) . And they still die because to really care you have to think of the big picture .
The kangaroos who colonise the new roads still have to find something to eat .
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