No. of Recommendations: 3
Dear friend & local water resources guy:
DS1 knows I try to follow the late Charlie Munger's dictum of every day making myself carefully read and just as carefully rebut an opinion contrary to my own (i.e., a clearly wrong and stupid opinion).
The concept is that it helps keep the mind sharp by having it exercise by, like, thinking.
Most days, this heavy lifting is accomplished by the WSJ editorial pages, but today was an exception. It's a really well-done review of the arguments
against the removal of the dams on the Upper Klamath, both the predictable (
"removing the Copco dams dishonors farmers and ranchers like her grandfather and his brother, who gave up their land for flooding and moved upriver; she says we’re turning back the clock of progress. Linda Spannaus, whose grandfather was that other brother, is feeling for the countless frogs, waterfowl, turtles, fish, and other animals that will lose their homes or die as the century-old lake becomes a river again") as well as the more complex ideas that don't lend themselves to sound bites.
Read to find out:
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-other-side-...It even contains this remarkably sensible, well-balanced statement from the author that I don't think I'd ever likely to see either in the WSJ (as being too groovy) or the NYT (as being too glibly dismissive of the Misunderstood Downtrodden Among Us):
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Let me say frankly that I don’t find these connect-the-dots theories credible. They aren’t detached from reality, though. They’re attached to the reality that, for more than a century, people here have felt subject to outside forces beyond their control that ignore or devalue their interests. Through that lens, seeing a sinister role for global illuminati doesn’t take a long leap of imagination"...which a future historian might reasonably excerpt as a description of 2020s America
There are even pretty pictures. (Including the guaranteed crowd-pleasing hi-res video of dynamite blowing something up)
-- sutton
