Belo Monte Dam approved :(

[auroraglacialis]

That is a noble goal, applejuice, to restore, but I have serious problems with that idea in this context on several levels.
First of all it is always easier, more successful and viable to preserve than to restore.
Secondly restoration is always inadequate, as the compexity of a natural system cannot simply be replaced by a human made restoration effort. All that humans usually do is to allow for natural restoration to occur and maybe help it along - if systems are too degraded, they will not repair to their former state.
Thirdly to put this task to our children and childrens children at the end of this century is unspeakable. This goes against all ideas of human care. It sounds quite mad to think that we living now can rightfully destroy much of this world for personal gains, comforts and fun and justify this by possibly providing our descendants with some of the tools to restore some of the damage.

This is not acceptable to me - it is US living NOW that have to put an end to the destruction and that have to start restoring, not some distant generation at the end of the century. On the track this civilization is on now, we cannot wait any longer until the ship hits the reef. We alreday see the reef clearly in front of us - WE have to steer away from it and not smash right into it, hoping that by then surely someone will be able to repair the leaks.