DamNation: The Problem with Hydropower | Patagonia Films
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- This film explores the evolution of our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of wild rivers.
Produced by Matt Stoecker & Travis Rummel
Directed by Ben Knight & Travis Rummel
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4 years later and this is still one of my favourite documentaries - 3rd time watching!
Me too and I show it to anyone I can. Have you seen: "Artifishal"? You won't regret it.
Yes
Don’t mind me, this is for school.
Edit: Wooo! For everyone who’s watching this for school, good luck!
3:08 Title
5:11 History Timeline starts
6:11 South Fork Dam Failure
9:24 Talk of dams in Yellowstone, Sierra Club, and Glenn Canyon
11:14 removal of Elwha and Olympic Park Dams
12:15 Kevin Yang interview
16:06 First Salmon Ceremony of Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe
19:35 Columbia River
31:30 Snake River
46:54 hatcheries
53:50 Glenn Canyon
1:02:06 environmental movements
1:22:16 the scissors
You dropped your crown king. I’m also here for school.
also doing this for school youre goated
Youre a king
King.
Thanks for this!! another one I recommend is 26:00 Celilo Falls
I keep coming back to this doc.
I hope Patagonia can give these filmmakers a chance to make another film of this calibre.
I’m a licensed professional engineer that specializes in dams.
This was a very well made documentary. I especially felt sympathetic for cultures who were connected to a free flowing river.
However, I would like to point out for discussion, that hydropower is not the only benefit of a dam.
They provide drinking water for millions.
Perhaps more importantly, they control floods. By impounding water and letting it out at a controlled rate dams saves lives.
No question that dams inhibit the migration of fish species. This is despite our best efforts to mitigate the issue. Earnest trying to meet both sides of the issue.
I am gratefully a public servant, and will continue to engineer dams to the best of my ability based on what the public I serve desires.
I just wanted to give another point of view other than “hydropower vs. salmon or other migratory fish”. Dams do so much more than providing hydropower.
I work for Save Our Wild Salmon in eastern Washington, working with stakeholders and community leaders to support removal of the four lower Snake River dams to restore wild salmon and steelhead. So grateful to the fantastic film-makers and Patagonia for creating this funny, poignant, heartbreaking, spot on film.
Got fight the mining companies from there too. We need help in Alaska bad. The Pebble Catastrophe is moving full speed ahead. These guys are full on Demonic and do not give a crap about people, fish or any living thing. All they care about is purposeful destruction of any environment that they think they can profit off of.
Trump era deregulation as much as some of it was necessary as I am not anti-business but you've gotta have discernment. That means go where living things aren't. NOT part of the Pebble game plan. Their plan is to destroy the wild fishery on purpose so their friends in the fish farming business can then build fish farms all up and down the Alaska coastline. Then expand the mining district forever until the entire state is beholden to the evil of their ways.
Truly sickening what these people have already done. I cannot imagine what kind of evil they will purport upon the native Alaskans in the area to get this unnecessary and dangerous project started.
@KELLI2L2 Actually, nuclear can be done much better. See: France. What's wrong with nuclear? Yes, in the past there have been a few mishaps, but even those few errors have caused far less damage than burning coal for a year, or damming our world's most important rivers.
Sam Mace 8 years ago I remember my dad and his friend taking us to go steelhead fishing on the snake river near Lewiston and every year after that i would ask my dad about the Steel head runs up the snake river and now I don’t bother asking anymore since I know it will be bad.
OK I can understand bonneville & grand coulee won't be coming out, that battle can't be won, I will continue to advocate removing the 4 LSRD's
REVELATION 11:18.
No one will probably read this but this video was awesome. It made me feel every emotion, I learned more about dam removal, filming and editing and motivated me. Thank you
I’m glad people realize that all clean energy sources have environmental costs but we need more than just wind and solar guys. Nuclear and hydro are really powerful backbone sources that solar and wind can’t come close to touching. We may have to sacrifice a few watersheds.
Exactly, it’s impossible to make everyone happy
Both nuclear and hydro have costs. The biggest cost is the loss of salmon and other riparian species - something we MAY be able to manage with a more mature view of hydro projects and a view of equitable management of resources.
Nuclear power has only 2 problems; the cost (nuclear is the highest cost electrical generation source, period) and our failure to commit to a final repository for waste disposal. Some are incorrectly making claims about 'new engineering' and thorium, but ignoring that both have waste disposal requirements. Even if spent fuel is ignored (thorium would theoretically be completely consumed) contaminated equipment, ore and manufacturing residue are still hot enough to need care in disposal. All of these issues need to be balanced and the cost added to the decision.
All solutions have costs. Claiming they do not exist is sheer fantasy, and while I enjoy reading fantasy I don't base my real world decisions on it.
Wind power has a ton of negative costs, but apparently we care more about salmon than the birds, bats and bees
The whole documentary is wonderful, but the Katie Lee/Glen Canyon segment (53:49) brought tears to my eyes. The combination of ancient indigenous and natural beauty, the feeling of fear and rapture in that sacred space, Katie Lee's own joie de vivre both then and now, the ache of realizing the magnitude of what was lost, all captured in stunning still and moving images and backed by a perfect soundscape ("Switzerland" by Daughter; amazing choice). Just beautiful filmmaking. Bravo.
What? Her running around naked. Yea, really brought a lot of insight to the issue. What were they thinking? It will increase viewers?.
Ah switzerland, the only european country that has the actual right idea by building actual new dams. 60% hydropower , one of the greanest countries out there. Lots of electrified railways all over the country too. And stable energy too, unlike germany, where every time the wind doesn't blow and it's cloudy, the lignite power plants are started right up.
Girls running around naked on the other hand, is something I support wholeheartedly.
These documentaries are sobering and mesmerizing. They make me contemplate my role in saving what we have left of our awesome natural resources. I wish all students could see these.
Why students? You have special plan for them do ya?
20:15 _There is a job waiting for this man anywhere throughout Red communist China, don't let door of progress hit you on the way out Mr. Dam the bro man 👞._
@@CONCERTMANchicago I think you have your own set of problems with your "progress" over there is Chicago don't ya. I mean how many people were shot during the typing of this comment???????
This dam the three gorges dam is actually why the Baiji Yangtze river dolphin , paddlefish has no water to flow or survive and went extinct on the Yangtze The Yangtze, Yangzi, or officially Chang Jiang is the longest river in Asia Chinese alligator Chinese giant salamander finless porpoise Chinese sturgeon Rare Chinese Sturgeon Not Reproducing, Close to Extinction Chinese sturgeon on the brink of extinction Dabry's sturgeon Yangtze giant softshell turtle After 140 Million Years, the Chinese Sturgeon May Soon Be Extinct Red and white giant flying squirrel Mongolian gazelle oh and guess what the The Chinese high-fin banded shark is a popular freshwater aquarium fish calls this river home the Yangtze River basin but no more cus of the three gorges dam is extinct all this life of planet earth save the Yangtze
Good film an message, I think we all agree on sustaining the natural habitats for these fish and other wildlife. It is a challenging problem with modern development, and a worthy cause. My only criticism of the film is that it's not as simple as replacing existing (hydroelectric) generators with wind turbines. To put it simply, the wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine. People say they do not care about electricity, but here we are able to consume this content that is made possible by hydroelectric, coal fired, gas fired, oil fired, and nuclear powered energy sources. I felt compelled to state this because so many people seem to only see the problem from one side, and as a society we need to grapple the totality of what we are dealing with to solve the problems.
Lets fall in love with the problem of power, not the current solutions.
Consider Molten Salt Thorium Reactors making preservation of hydroelectric dams obsolete.
you can tell the producer is not an engineer when they suggest replacing all hydro power with wind turbines...
@@kenwelker7472 The world needs fission (and fusion if possible) more than ever and on large scale to allow for moving off fossil fuels, as renewables cannot power most countries alone, certainly not the US. The only roadblock is the public's weak understanding of the safety of fission. Those who criticise nuclear power are merely misinformed, unless they suggest we ditch electrification entirely.
I don't think they're intending to imply that every dam can be offset by wind/solar/etc. Every dam's contribution to their power grid is highly situational and I think they were pointing out that some are more obsolete than others.
The man talking about every dam being "reconsidered/examined" seemed to have the ideal mindset toward this issue. Not all dams need to go, but America as a country (and humans in general, really) has this pesky habit of going overboard on everything, and dam the future consequences.
Progress changes things, even the lense with which we view past actions, and sometimes we need to be humble enough to look back and admit mistakes and take the time and effort to correct them.
Um, yeah, sorry I got carried away in the current, heh.
Got sucked into this documentary again and if i've commented on it in the past im sure it had to be positive. Lee is a true hero along with everyone else involved in the making of this great documentary film.
Bravo! Thank you!
Thank you very much for this great doc!!! May all humans realize the importance of free-flowing rivers and help restoring them!
Very excited for this to come out. Patagonia films are world class and extremely motivational!
Just note that this film came out in 2014, It just hasn't been online for free until now
@@ningalls9905 You are correct!
I watched it when it was originally released!
I would love to be able to help out
This dam the three gorges dam is actually why the Baiji Yangtze river dolphin , paddlefish has no water to flow or survive and went extinct on the Yangtze The Yangtze, Yangzi, or officially Chang Jiang is the longest river in Asia Chinese alligator Chinese giant salamander finless porpoise Chinese sturgeon Rare Chinese Sturgeon Not Reproducing, Close to Extinction Chinese sturgeon on the brink of extinction Dabry's sturgeon Yangtze giant softshell turtle After 140 Million Years, the Chinese Sturgeon May Soon Be Extinct Red and white giant flying squirrel Mongolian gazelle oh and guess what the The Chinese high-fin banded shark is a popular freshwater aquarium fish calls this river home the Yangtze River basin but no more cus of the three gorges dam is extinct all this life of planet earth save the Yangtze
On 1:00:06: Simply, one of the best photograph that I've ever seen in my whole life. Thanks for show us the magnificence of Nature.
1:00:29 I think does the exact same thing
This is one of the most powerful and truthful documentaries I have ever watched , I THANK YOU AND THE PARTICIPANCE AND THEIR ACTIONS and for having the BALLS to make such a great eye opener, WELL DONE TO YOU ALL .
Love that this is finally free on a global platform. Such a fantastic film!!!
Wow. Thank you for producing such videos. Although I am deeply familiar with the issue being a avid fisherman, this is the way to teach the masses. God Bless.
I have never thought about this and took all the dams for granted. What a fascinating, sobering and enthralling story, ten minutes in. I am getting a sense of good intentions about to go wrong, and must stick around to see where it leads. THANK YOU
We’re already starting to see the unintended consequences of good intentions. Keep watching, it’s getting weird.
you should've thgt of it
@@jacquelinekemp4074 Better late than never.
Wow this is so awesome, they have been taking out a 250 yr old mill dam next to my house. So many are upset but from what I can tell it’s because it is something of comfort cause they grew up with it. I am glad to see an unused dam go, why maintain something that isn’t being used.. and since a boy I have always wanted to see the Native America before settlers came, so this to me is monumental to happen in my life and to a dam right next to my house, I get to witness Temple streams freedom and rebirth. I wish I got involved as a younger man but still glad some others answered the tug on their heart to make a difference instead of contributing too it.
What an incredible piece of work!! I will never think of Dams the same way again.
I love your documentaries, thank you for shedding light to protect Mother Nature
How they replace energy? (electricity.power)?
@@maroufsultanzada4334 we’re not replacing All hydro ... just the ones doing more damage than good. getting rid of inefficient dams
@@thlee3 “we” YOU ain’t doing anything.
@@Honorablebenaiaha your worth is not more than anyone else’s. Get down off you high horse and pour your own damn water.
Miracle water is pure gold think,Our life using miracle miracle water resources here under ground and up lands??think non humans holding the brooms with lighter trash dry leaves,One year here homes here burning trash daily when it rains left overs burns trash on the ground goes down under ground, contamination to
canals rivers lakes n oceans sad but true 07
Beautifully done! Keep on being a steward to our rivers and its ecosystem.
This dam is actually why Las Vegas has no water to survive
Just watched this for my Recreation Planning class and loved every second! Can’t wait to dig deeper with my classmates tomorrow! Thanks Patagonia for the great film!
Clicked on this randomly on a Friday night. Couldn't stop watching. Exceptional. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this well informed documentary. Long live Mother Nature
Absolutely fantastic, thank you for sharing this resource.
Excellent. If I wish, I wish I were such things restoring America to its pristine past. Thanks to all of those who made this video possible.
so much thoughtful discussion, gives hope that working and fighting for the good of the whole earth must be the goal.
this is the most impactful documentary i've ever seen
Thank you to Ben and the whole team for this amazing Docie.... So needed. So powerfull.
Brings tears to my eyes to see people winning thats fighting for nature to thrive. Great docos.
This is going to sit with me for a long time. I live in the Pacific Northwest and simply can't look at Dam's the same. An incredible documentary that more need to see.
And for folks who want to learn more about the history of dam building in America, I recommend the classic Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner. Read it it my 20s and it turned me into a river advocate.
Took the words right out of my mouth! An excellent book ok that every westerner should read.
Thank you for that inspirational story! I really like that you do highlight that there are some dams that we need but most of them are just unnecessary.
Best documentary of the year. Thank you !
I stay in Scotland. Every loch I have seen has a fishery on it. I loved this documentary!! Keep it coming and I will keep watching.
From taking down dams in Oregon to preventing their construction in Alaska. Leave it to Patagonia to join is in the good fight against Big Hydro.
big hydro down gas and coal up
@discorperted a large portion of their line is made 100% of recycled materials. not to mention all of their donations to grass roots environmental organizations. Your comment is very misguided. Patagonia, while not perfect, is a setting a great model for other clothing brands.
yes!! cant wait till we go back to candles.
@@roberthunt1460 Just because it's made from recycled plastics, does not make it biodegradable, or better for the environment. It's STILL plastic.
I'm sure the natural gas industry loves your work
What a beautiful movie! Thank you for sharing!
Such a beautiful and eye opening documentary, it really touched my heart
This is my favorite documentary
Incredibly beautiful, informative, and thought-provoking documentary. Thank you for doing this.
Humanity has no business, nor the right, to build any dam, anywhere. Great film.
Great representation and showcase of how beautiful the North West is our country. Thank you.
Patagonia- through your youtube and incredibly powerful documentary’s, I have found so much respect for this company. I love how these documentary’s show all sides of the issue, and lead the viewer towards the most logical, and ethical opinion, without ever shoving it in their face. Thank you for these documentary’s I hope there will be more to come!
This dam is actually why Las Vegas has no water to survive
I was rather appreciative of your inclusion of an opposing view in the form of the hydropower operator of the dam being deconstructed at the onset of the documentary. The gentleman seemed to be the only credible advocate for the continuation of hydropower in your documentary. I think that many dams will likely still be needed. But clearly many such as those on the Snake River are not necessary, even truly detrimental.
And, thanks for making me laugh! Brilliant protest!
What a beautiful glimpse into this story, thank you
Glad this is available to watch on CZcams. Thank you!
Can we get this on Netflix and other platforms to get it to more people?
It was on netlfix
CZcams is free man, you're doing it wrong
@@janeblogs324 average joe doesnt get their "news" from youtube
@@mrziplineds5257 I'm an average Joe, I get my news from CZcams.
its been around since 2014,
Now this . . . this is powerful! As an ichthyology enthusiast, I've never found such a deep expression of the wounds dams give to our mother earth. Thank you.
Bravo filmmaker(s). Powerful stuff.
Excellent doco'. I'm much better informed and care a lot more now And the the ending... priceless. God bless her. What an angel she was too, her naked beauty was a perfect compliment to those amazing canyons. Bravo!!
Superb documentary. These people have real courage. They are willing to sacrifice their lives to make a difference. As was said by Edward Abby, "Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."
I was assigned to watch this for one of my Geography college courses and I'm really glad. This documentary was one of the best I've ever seen and shined a lot of light on a topic I've never thought about before
Miracle water is pure gold think,Our life using miracle miracle water resources here under ground and up lands??think non humans holding the brooms with lighter trash dry leaves,One year here homes here burning trash daily when it rains left overs burns trash on the ground goes down under ground, contamination to
canals rivers lakes n oceans sad but true 07
Powerful documentary!! Lets unite, innovate and create solutions under the creator who showed all people how to care for Mother Earth. Ancient traditional teachings that must be upheld for all people/living creatures/ plants.
Thank you so much. For what you do, this is history.
"This is federal, this is their river"
That sums up how "our" government feels about us and the countries resources.
One of the saddest films i've ever viewed, Thanks Patagonia for making this film.
yeah that sounded like bullshit, have they faced punishment?
I agree. I cried. It's horrible and we all knew it ... and have for decades that is what's so sad. We KNOW our government is greedy and corrupt in the business of creating government.
One of the most powerful environmental movie of the past decade..
Have you even been alive for a decade?
It is been about 10 yrs ago since I watched this powerful documentary and now I even love it more, because the Mekong river in my Mother’s land is about the to be divided by more than hundreds dams along the rivers.
This film absolutely blew me away. Well done.
"we don't have to do anything for them except leave them alone"
What a great documentary 👍
I love how Patagonia shows both sides of the problem. That’s smart.
They did an exceedingly poor job of showing the "positive". Or of alternative solutions. I speak as someone that genuinely supports dam removal projects. But there is a lot they didn't show.
@@pinkyfull You can only show so much in 90 minutes.
Couldnt agree more
@@pinkyfull why waste time and energy on something everyone learned in 2nd grade though? of course dams provide electricity and water for farms..we all know that already! if that one dam can be replaced by "3 windmills" there's a good part of your alternative solution, in case forgot about solar...and besides that, it is still possible to generate power from a river without a dam! it is also possible for people to start really getting serious about conserving energy and water....a huge amount of electricity and water is simply wasted.
no they showed a counter arguments and deconstructed them. Did you notice how the guy talks about how amazing the fish are and then they show how they are treated in hatcheries? The film takes a clear stance on dam removal, and the only reason they show counterpoints is to deconstruct them.
Brilliant! Honoring our natural habitat makes us all richer.
I absolutely love and respect the approach taken in this documentary. Too often we who love nature and wish to preserve it, expend our energy villifying the ignorant, accosting them with condescension and verbal abuse. Many of us never stop to realize that the vast majority of people wish to be reasonable. Often all it takes is a little patience, compassion, and unadulterated truth/information to bring people around. The most counterproductive thing we can do is approach people in a manner that makes them feel threatened culturally, individually, or politically. Unfortunately there are many activists amongst us who do much more harm than good because they do not take this aspect of human nature into account. I would challenge anyone who is interested in environmental activism to study the science of human motivation as diligently as they study the ecology of the issue they care about. Without understanding both you will likely hurt your cause more than help it.
It goes deeper than that. It's outright snobbery AND hypocrisy. Take San Franciscans in California. San Franciscans love eating in those fancy restaurants in that city, but they look down their noses at the people who grow the very food in the San Joaquin, Sacramento, Salinas and Coachella Valleys that they are consuming in those restaurants. Agriculture (like steel production, but that's somewhat a different story) is important not just to the economy but to national security.
Most definitely the best documentary I’ve seen in my life totally moving to my soul and spirit thank you for all your hard work and dedication and willingness to help save our wonderful planet
In Denmark er remove a lot of small old dams, but we still have the biggest one that extinct the Atlantic Salmon 90 years ago in Denmark's longest river. 3 Vestas windmills could replace the powerplant. The argument is that a few rich people live with a view over the lake. Think of having a wonderful river in your backyard full og wild Salmon - maybe at least as beautyful... Now we only have the imagination of a wild flowing river. One Day ...
That film was so interesting and full og Hope.
Thank you from little Denmark.
Fantastic film, many thanks for putting this out there.
Thank you for making and sharing this!
Hats off, Ben Knight, to you and the crew who worked on this project. Inspiring. Thank you.
This dam is actually why Las Vegas has no water to survive
@@Okowa407 it’s the only reason Las Vegas has water. It’s the desert
I am actually speechless. This film simply blew my mind. Excellent storytelling on such an important matter. Free the rivers
What a brilliant inspirational film......gives me HOPE....
Absolutely brilliant well done 👍 thanks for the film good job
"Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul." WOW!!! That is SO true!
Thank you so much for making this. More people need to be aware of the dire situation of freshwater, and that dams are not a solution but a problem. I've been watching other documentaries about other areas of the world building dams and it absolutely broke my heart, so to see from your film that there is hope that we can turn this situation around is such a beautiful thing. Thank you.
Let's build a coal burning power plant instead.
@@e-curb My thoughts exactly. But the coal powerplant doesn't do flood control, recreation, and irrigation to boot. Our modern way of living doesn't exist without dams. These uninformed crusaders don't have a clue.
Thank you for your service to us all ❤️
This is an exceptional production. Incredibly well done, and relays the importance of river ecosystem restoration and preservation. I'll never think of dams the same again.
This is such an important documentary. People need to know more about the many mistakes that have brought us to where we are today,and not repeat them.😭❤️🌍✌️
Fantastic work, Patagonia! It gives me hope for our world after seeing what you are doing and the projects your are producing. Keep it up!
This dam is actually why Las Vegas has no water to survive
This was well worth the watch. I absolutely loved this film. #freetherivers
Did anyone else notice the AWESOME beer save @ 1:26:10 during the credits? The perfect ending to a very important and well made film. Cheers!
This was excellent. Hats off to all those trying to make a difference in dam removal and salmon recovery.
Their plan is not to help salmon. They just make it seem like that. They forget to look at the reality of the situation and forget that there isn’t native fish left that they plan on saving. Most hatcheries aren’t like that. Look at the organization Hatchery/Wild CoExist. They are trying to get salmon back but keep getting stepped on by brands like Patagonia.
Thanks for this beautiful film :) Here in Québec we're big producer of hydropower. We always think of hydro as being super clean, but it's good to have a healthy reminder of what the adverse effects can be. We just have to be smart about how we manage all this. The day we'll start taking into account the environmental cost of things, it will change the way we make business world. Merci beaucoup :) Cheers to everyone :)
Most emotional rollercoaster with an ending smile for the past.. now for that the future has been taught many good things.. good on you all.. the people
The Meek shall inherit the earth.
Just found your channel, just spent 7 hours watching, it felt like 2 . WOW my brain heart and soul felt everything....I was oblivious to this. Thank you for opening my eyes
If money controls democracy then we should buy from companies like Patagonia.
Hey, Patagonia! Love, love, love the film! Truly inspiring. One thing: If you do indeed text "DAM" to the number listed, it says, "Tell Pres. Obama to crack down on deadbeat dams..." Time for an update! Much love.
Born in the early 1950's & Grew up in Southern California, as a kid i got a job a a bait-boy in Newport Harbor. In a few short years i watched the bait fish known as anchovies become very scarce and expensive, A net full or full scoop of bait was about $1.25, and half scoop .75 cents. By the time i was 14 years old a scoop was $5-$7. Eventually i got my dream job as a deckhand on a sport fishing boat fishing out off the Channel islands, in 2 short years i saw people who once brought home gunny sacks full of fish from a half or full day boat to maybe catching 1 or 2 edible fish on a good day, they would still catch lots of mackeral which they would keep for pet food or bury in their gardens to fertilize trees and such. Fish were becoming scarce, so i gave that career up and became a cook & then a chef, a job i could travel to resorts and work, with my new past time becoming fly fishing in fresh water, something i did as a kid in the High Sierras on summer vacations I remember my grandmother telling me about catching Salmon on Malibu creek just north of Los Angeles and that Redwood trees once grew along the coast there when she was a kid back in 1900. I fly fished and traveled throughout the west working in the resorts & restraunt business, Then by 1973 i realized nearly everywhere i went was fast becoming fished out, I had a revelation & I quit eating Seafood and Salmon as well as Trout & freshwater fish altogether. A hard thing to do after being raised on fish, diving for and eating fresh lobster & abalone since i was a kid. Frying that fresh caught trout next to the creek at Yosemite, or catching little golden trout In the Sequoia Wilderness in the early 1960's. I moved to the Big Island of Hawaii in 1974 and was reborn, literally lived off the sea for 4 years, worked on Kona sport fishing "trophy boats" whenever i needed a little spending money, but for the most part i just enjoyed living off the sea, camping on the beach, like being in paradise, and then i experienced the same thing happening over there. Shellfish and shore caught fish were becoming exploited & getting more and more scarce, the trophy boats were bringing in less and less, smaller and smaller fish, which not long before no respectable sportsman would consider keeping or eating,( an early form of catch and release consciousness) and with many days being skunked with nothing being caught, The icehouse where sport fisherman had fish weighed, cleaned and stored for the sportsmen customers were becoming just ice houses with very few fish, maybe 1/4 full on the best of days, so again, the writing was on the wall, And i quit that sporting life and eating fish altogether. That time for good . Getting used to eating hamburgers, deli sandwhiches and pizza was a very tough go. I still cringe when i see a hamburger or have to eat one out of respect or courtesy to my host at a BBQ,( i refuse to eat hot dogs) instead of having a nice cut of prime beef , wild game or a nice filet, Even though i worked in high end resort kitchens most of my life, by the time i was 40 ( 30++ years ago) i demoted myself from being a resort chef/ sous chef to working in small resort town greasy spoon cafes as a cook or hash slinger. Preferring breakfast cook as i did not have to cook fish or hamburgers. Just Bacon & sausages, which was bad enough form of payback, as i find pork totally discusting as an edible food source. Hang around enough Obese Bacon eating, beer swilling, bait and barb hooked fishermen in life, only reinforced my bias attitude towards many of todays overfed sportsmen.. My beloved 100 year old hand wrapped Scottish fly rod heirloom still sits broken in it's original cardboard case, the last fish it ever caught was a smaller 30 pound saltwater Tarpon in Florida, which broke the pole.
Best documentary in years
I really wish you guys would do a documentary like this and "Artifishal" on the fight to save the Everglades and Florida Bay.
Glyphosate now sprayed by the sugar cane industry to dry the crop quickly is ruining both. Green slimy water runoff is the result. Chokes off human and animal life yearly now. No one needs weed killer on their sugar
How they replace energy? (electricity.power)?
@@pinschrunner We need undamaged nature. I am sorry to hear that it has become so bad in Florida, and I hope that changes. I'm also glad that I don't use sugar. Though that wasn't my aim in living a sugar free (including high fructose corn syrup) life, I'm glad to know that I'm not contributing to the destruction of Florida's habitat. Our food is plenty good without sugar, and the stuff that gets lots of sweeteners added to it, whether i be plant derived sucrose, or artificial sweeteners, is really horrible to one's body. We can all give up a few things for the planet's sake, and for our own sake if we put our minds to it.
@@maroufsultanzada4334 The electric power is easily replaced now by just a few windmills. Three or four wind turbines will generate as much energy as one entire dam, and as the technology becomes more refined it is getting to the place where even the slightest breeze will turn the blades. There is no place on the planet where wind doesn't blow at the height of a standard wind turbine for more than a few seconds, which makes them an ideal form of electric generation. They do have their drawbacks and environmental impact, but the impact they have is far less than that caused by hydro-electric dams. I'm sure as technology advances more options will be added to the mix. I have one idea which I believe would work extremely well, though since I'm not an engineer I can't get anyone to listen, or to take it seriously. I don't care if I never make a cent off of it if it will help reduce or eliminate the need to burn fossil fuels and or damming up rivers. The basic idea is to use light focused through a series of lenses and mirrors onto a metal block which thus heated, and with water pumped through it, would generate steam to turn turbines. At the same time it can be used to pressurize large pressure tanks which could be used during the night or in cloudy weather to keep the turbines running, thus providing electricity 24/7. I give this idea freely for the sake of the planet and future generations of humankind throughout the world. It's simple, and all it needs is an engineer and some money to bring it to reality. Old buildings and abandoned structures could be given new life this way. Abandoned steel mills and automotive plants in the rust belt could be given new life by mounting fresnel lenses built into the roofs of these buildings would be the first step in focusing the light to create the necessary heat. Whereas electricity could be stored in batteries, pressure tanks would have much less of an overall environmental impact than batteries would, and the recycling of pressure tanks would be much less of a problem than dumping tons of spent batteries with all their heavy metals and acids onto the land. When a pressure tank has gone through its maximum number of safe cycles it would be much less damaging to melt them down and make them anew. All the way around it's a much cleaner solution, and also brings the possibility of new jobs to a part of the country which has suffered greatly from the exit of jobs. So there it is. Stupidly simple, just no one has thought of it before. If anyone knows of an engineer, pass it on. It could be the way most electricity is made in the future.
@@Chompchompyerded windmills are used for geo-engineering. They also cause illness in humans and animals. Not Don Quixotes windmill any more
I bought this years ago. On DVD, and this quality is stunning! BEST HUGS FOR MAKING THIS PUBLIC (AVAILABLE)!
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Well done. Thank you for sharing this with the public. There is a glimmer of hope that what we thought was lost forever may have a chance to come back.
Fantastic, great work people, thankyou....from New Zealand
This was SO well done and unexpectedly emotional!! I want everyone to see this. Thank you so much ~ ~ ~
red pill right there !
This dam is actually why Las Vegas has no water to survive
As Filmmaker, this is one film that, w.r.t everything - music, visuals, graphics, pace , and most importantly the story and the unbiased yet conservation-oriented approach - it is an aspirational level for me to achieve.
Ive taken a cue out of it and a lot of content i produce is inspired by this film. Watched it in 2015, and keep coming back to it once every few months:)
Great show. Lots of great Folk. The dam builders too.
Our countryment/ government should be aware of this , thank you for sharing
Truly appreciate the fella who said it would be foolish to remove every dam, but equally foolish to not assess whether every damn still made good economic sense over the idiot who said “I choose fish over electricity”. It’s radicals from both ends of the spectrums that prevent us from having sensible conversations with one another where common progress can be made.
Plus, look at the waste generated by other "green energy" like wind and solar. Horrendous. Ironically, the cleanest "renewable" may simply be burning trees w/ carbon capture... Legally enforce growing new forests for harvest and you got yourself a whole new industry whose explicit job is carbon negative.
If your idea of "sensible" is destroying the earth and killing wildlife all in the name of profit for massive companies, then I don't want to have a conversation with you. Dams are an outdated technology and should be treated as such.
seeing the dam side of the river turn green is so rewarding
Great documentary!!! Simply amazing
Best documentary I have seen in a while
Breach the Snake River Dams and all US Dams! 🦫🐠❤️