> It must be possible to obtain electricity by some
> means other than wrecking culturally important
> sites.

But first you have to live long enough in order to develop those means.
Those dams provide far more for humanity as a whole than just electricity.
1. Dams are a hedge against drought. When populations are at the hunter gatherer level, then yes, a natural water hole outback will suffice (most of the time) and should not be damaged, but not with 7 billion of us around that need water to drink when wells and waterholes run dry.
2. Dams provide flood control for livable land downstream that otherwise would be unusable and also lost forever.
3. Today the Mungo/Willandra lakes are dust bowls with almost no life left of the past...yet they are legitimate important sites. They are UNESCO sites for proven reasons.
4. The Harding Dam put back those lakes in a different area and gave new life to a large portion of the ecology lost at Mungo when those lakes dried up. There are millions of archaeological sites in Australia...Mr. Walker needs water for his kids, first, before he needs to save billions of waste flakes and woman's camps and men's camps suppressing the very women that might be the ones that can help solve those other "means".
IOW, where would we (and Mr. Walker) be today if Marie Curie and Mary Leakey had been stuck in a woman's camp? Individual human rights and the vote first priority, then worry about saving those billions of waste flakes.
Original male owner's first choice of might-is-right for the best toolstone and best flakes and giving the women and kids the left-over junk flakes also can't continue. As I read it, (and I might be wrong since I don't know Mr. Walker personally and can't be sure what misquoting the media has done to his words) but that seems to be what he is advocating.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/08/2020 10:16AM by Lee Olsen.