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[–] meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 months ago

I mean, those are the same people who say "we had warm days during summer back then, too"

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

My favorite type of climate change my local county did to itself (we made the streams and canals flow better so we don't flood. A lot of it was litter removal. Damn project took decades and will need maintenance) like, it doesn't have to be bad,

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[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

So instead of the historical flooding and deposition of sediment, the flood water goes downstream? I don't know if that's necessarily better, as described. Flood water needs to spread out, slow down, and soak in. Else it creates worse problems elsewhere.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago*

fortunately downstream is the ocean. the sediment issue on the farmland, that's the one that we're not sure about, but there are a few hundred thousand people living in the floodplain and fewer people get fed off that farmland (which hasn't been doing great in the last 70 years since... well that's a history lesson and a farming lesson. long story short, if people have been doing something for a very, very long time, it's worth thinking about the consequences a long time before you change it. but since they already did, you kind of have to play the hand you're dealt, not the hand that was dealt twenty years ago.