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RE: There are plans to build 428 new hydroelectric dams in the Amazon! How will this affect the rainforest ecosystem?
That's a lot of dams. It will be a mess. It's more or less easy to predict and simulate the effect of one or few dams but the cumulative effects of that many dams are almost impossible to foresee. Too much intertwined variables and many resources and processes to consider (water, soils, nutrient cycles, flora, fauna...)
Yeah, it is impossible to foresee how much damage they will do together, but the biggest problem is that no one is even tasked to attempt it!