3.16.mp3 3.16.mp3 3.16.mp3 We interviewed environmental campaigner Kate Ellis about lessons we can
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried from the past.
INTERVIEWER: Why are you so
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried about water?
KATE: Because it’s
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried to life. Water will be as
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried in the twenty-first century as oil was in the twentieth. By 2025 two-thirds of the world’s population may face a shortage of water.
INTERVIEWER: So what are governments doing about it?
KATE: They’ve
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried about the problem for a long time. They started building more large
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried to store water in the 1990s. But there have been many mistakes.
INTERVIEWER: What kind of mistakes?
KATE: By the end of the twentieth century there were more than 50,000
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried dams on more than half the world’s
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried rivers. These dams have
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried species,
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried huge areas of land and
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried tens of millions of people.
INTERVIEWER: In other words, you think governments shouldn’t have built so many dams.
KATE: That’s right. They should have
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried about the human cost and they ought to have
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried the environmental consequences. Dams can be used to
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried electricity as well as to
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried water, and they’re positive aspects. But I’m
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried that more dam building projects are
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried now, for example in Africa, when people should have
concerned considered dams displaced essential flooded generate important known large learn learnt major store thought underway wiped out worried lessons from the mistakes of the past.