What A Bunch of Losers!
The World Wildlife Fund for Nature stunned the world today by releasing a report on the negative impacts of dams. Every policy maker in the world, from the U.S. president to the tribal village elders in some out-of-the-way place in Sudan, read the report immediately and acted on the information. Earl Pomeroy, North Dakota's representative in the US Congress, introduced a bill today banning dams everywhere. In his floor speech, he said "If we only knew the error of our foolish ways, we never would have built dams in the first place." The bill (and others like it) are expected to pass with ease. Once again, environmental information changed the world. NOT!

You can read the full report here.

Gland, Switzerland – A new WWF report warns that indiscriminate dam-building is threatening the world’s largest and most important rivers, with the Yangtze in China, the La Plata in South America, and the Tigris and Euphrates in the Middle East likely to suffer most from dams. 
 
The WWF report, Rivers at Risk, identifies the top 21 rivers at risk from dams being planned or under construction. It shows that over 60 per cent of the world’s 227 largest rivers have been fragmented by dams, which has led to the destruction of wetlands, a decline in freshwater species - including river dolphins, fish, and birds - and the forced displacement of tens of millions of people.
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