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Is this a black and white issue. Did and do hydro electric dams had/have a positive impact in global warming? Does the economic impact to native American tribes outweigh that? I feel like there's a lot of complexity here.
Dams aren't typically environmentally friendly almost at all. In fact, they tend to cause far more harm than good: https://earth.org/dams-economic-assets-or-ecological-liabilities/
https://www.science.org/content/article/hundreds-new-dams-could-mean-trouble-our-climate
https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2016/09/28/reservoirs-play-substantial-role-global-warming/
So yes, this is a pretty clear black and white case of the US once again fucking over indigenous tribes.
“Sorry we killed most of you in a series of brutal wars and plagues that we started, kicked the survivors out of your countries, systematically erased huge swaths of your culture and heritage, and then made the scraps of land we did give you unusable through mining and water extraction, but stealing your water turns out to be good for an entirely different problem we helped create that will ultimately destroy even more people and land.”
Yeah I don’t know if that checks out. Bad thing still looks bad.
Does the economic impact of a genocided people who lost nearly all their land outweigh that? Yes, unequivocally.
It has been black and white, since inception. Just on behalf of the federal government and those "complexities" you listed.
This is what nuance and the shading of gray looks like: science showing the other side of these projects, and the extreme costs which have primarily been borne by the indigenous tribes in the region.