Environmentalist Calls to Tear Down Dams Won’t Save Salmon But Will Waste Your Money

[@psychochicken9535]

If they fixed the problem, they wouldn't get any more money.

[@Artifex_Prudens]

its why they destroyed nuclear energy.

[@mrow7598]

Same with the government. If they did anything about abortion, illegal immigration etc etc they wouldn't have anything to run on.

[@annie.76]

Exactly 💯

[@MericaOutdoors]

Everything in this world is about Money and Power. If there is something going on in your life that you just can't figure out, apply the money and power logic. It will then make sense.

[@jamesherron9969]

It’s worse than that people they want to tear the damn is out for political reasons, and that is to destroy the economy of the last Republican controlled state on the West Coast, Idaho by destroying these for dams you’ll cut Idaho off ferment seaports, essentially killing the economy of Idaho, yet there are four dams downstream on the Columbia, that Oregon and Washington need to keep their sea ports open, and no one is claiming to tear them ones out Because of saving the fish from the dams was truly the point you would start tearing dams out at the ocean and work your way up the river start at the end of the river and work your way down that’s not how you clear block the road is it think about it people

[@skylerbowerbank5847]

Activists: "we have to go to electric only everything" Also Activists "we have to eliminate everything that generates electricity"

[@Tank50us]

If they had their way, we'd all be living in a Pre-Industrial Age society

[@Emppu_T.]

Activists only know that electricity comes from the wall.

[@Emppu_T.]

​@@Tank50us in a few decades we will be.

[@bryan81584]

They won't be happy until we're back to the horse and buggy days, only owning a horse would upset the animal rights folks, so not even then.

[@jacobhargiss3839]

​@@Tank50us you know what, maybe we should. Think about it, a couple decades of that and how many of these fools do you really think there would be left? We could build back society again and not have to deal with the stupids for another 200 years.

[@davidspeck8892]

If you hear it on the news it's probably a lie

[@edappi8172]

Unless you are a demonrat, the media wouldn't lie, would they!

[@sole__doubt]

Been like that for at least two decades.

[@joaopedrobaggio4475]

That's the main reason i stopped watching them.

[@septembersurprise5178]

"It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the trouble is that the stupid people -- who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations -- do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper, and there is where the harm lies." - Mark Twain

[@eadecamp]

Believe half of what you see and even less of what you read. And we need to do away with tax withholding.

[@messianichebrewshawnkawcak1550]

It’s not about the environment, it’s about control and dependency.

[@johnkilty5091]

@messianichebrewshawnkawcak1550 Do you drive a car? That makes you dependent on gas. For me, it is all about the environment.

[@messianichebrewshawnkawcak1550]

@@johnkilty5091 I didn’t drive until about 2020, and I am 47 years old. It’s not about the environment, earth isn’t that fragile. All the oil and coal used to be trees and animals, which means the it was alive at one point before the flood of Noah’s day. The carbon was all stored in the trees, last I checked trees need carbon dioxide. The green agenda is about destroying the last 150 years of technology advancement, which would send the world back to before 1800s.

[@nicolasceresoli9121]

@@johnkilty5091 do you drive an EV car, that makes you dependent on electricity? For me is the fact that dams are not crashing the environment as much as these activists and vegans are pushing to feed a fear mongering that profits liars, but instead giving you the access to electricity to power up your car. Want to be 100% for the environment, use a horsecart, and yet, even PETA will eat you up for "exploiting" a horse.

[@heaven-is-real]

forced into communism

[@Mikdeelow]

Yup! The Blue wants you to lock down and stay scared! Depend on the USG to tell you when to move!

[@HowItChewsToGum5Feels]

Notice how they always go after reliable sources of energy?

[@johnbland1422]

They want us to live in the Stone age but you won't be able to burn wood for heat

[@oceanbrown7159]

They don't work on making new energy sources nor have any plans to replace the ones they want taken down.

[@someone-pz4dg]

It is an anti American propaganda movement

[@ewmegoolies]

Just the way the globalist planned

[@highlandlab1924]

So what is a green energy that doesn't affect the environment or wildlife? Can we all agree on something.

[@malcolmtent]

1999: Salmon will be extinct by 2017, also in 1999 Polar icecap gone in the summer of 2017. Clearly purple hair dye makes people gullible.

[@k-ozdragon]

You almost forgot 1930: the world will end 1960: the world will end 1980: the world will end 2000: definitely the world will end 2012: the world will end because the Mayans said so 2018: Swedish teen says the world will end in two years 2021: we're still here, but the world will end soon 2024: climate emergency, world will end in 8 more years

[@Despiser25]

Purple hair is the tell that they are Marxists. Its the new uniform of the modern Hitlery Youth.

[@NPC-HonoraryRooftopKorean]

@k-ozdragon 2030: You will own nothing and eat ze 🪳🦗

[@garycarpenter2932]

@@NPC-HonoraryRooftopKorean with democrat voters, that prediction will come true.

[@trevorthesorcerer]

@@garycarpenter2932 Shhh it’s a military secret.

[@sixtentore8655]

"People don't wanna believe that their favorite environmental group is dishonest" That's a great quote

[@rockstarofredondo]

People don’t want to believe that they are unintelligent enough to have believed lots of nonsense, so they dig in their heels on believing the nonsense.

[@72marshflower15]

It’s a meaningless quote without anything to back it up.

[@72marshflower15]

@@rockstarofredondo nice projection. No one in these chats are educated and informed. This is pure trigger propaganda..

[@Avicados]

@@72marshflower15 and you sure bring facts to your argument…😁 keep being you.

[@72marshflower15]

@@Avicados what are you talking about? The OP’s comment is literally useless cause it’s not backed up by anything

[@lcruz3634]

Our town in OR has been affected by this. Last year, they started lowering the water level very low to help the salmon. Thousands of fish died from the water level lowering too fast. That affected our water quality. The water was brown, smelled like fish, and the silt overloaded the equipment used to clean our water because it was overloaded. It's a whole mess.

[@kyriss12]

It’s kind of ironic that some of the worst environmental disasters in history were the result of environmentalists trying to help. When Yellowstone nearly burned to the ground it was because they spent the previous decade putting out every little brush fire. There’s been several occasions where an invasive species like Pablo escobar’s hippo farm has been allowed to proliferate beyond the point of control because the environmentalists would let the actual conservationists go in and kill the bastards while their population was still controllable. And don’t even get me started on the times where they tried to shoehorn a biome into fitting their ideal of nature being some timeless unchanging sentinel, only to have it backfire because nature is always changing and adapting and when you try to force it into a state of stagnation shit just collapses on itself.

[@hadleyxdurmom]

But as the silt is settled plants and other fish have came back after some time!

[@georgestirewalt8508]

We is global citizens should keep all the water in land that we can. To help control sea levels. The more water you keep in land the lower sea levels will be. Also Inland ponds and Lakes give wildlife a place to live and water. Plus inland ponds and lakes soak up Global heat like a giant car radiator. People of the 🌎 EARTH, Inland kept water is a Win Win.

[@randysmidt2702]

Oregon.......oh I feel bad for you........a bunch of nuts running the show just like Washington.

[@prime87]

Regan said it right, "give them their way, and they'll be back tomorrow with another complain and demand!"

[@aguyyouneverknew]

Not paying the Danegeld is a concept that's been around since the middle ages. Modern day activists are just a new version of the Norse attacks on western Europe.

[@Drako9823]

"Never appease the Danegeld"

[@allouttabubblegum1984]

PDF file prez

[@tobybigham4196]

It's no different than a child who does obnoxious things for attention. Because they know in order to get attention again and again, they will need to be that more obnoxious! And if you give in once, then they know they can do it again!

[@johnkilty5091]

Regan also passed the clean water act! some of the regs you all are complaining about are from Regan.

[@user-ez3il1yy6i]

"Net Zero Means Zero For You". [Dr. Jordan B Peterson]

[@palaceofwisdom9448]

"Women are right and men are wrong." [Dr. Jordan B Peterson] I can't believe people still treat that absolute tool like a prophet.

[@happyappy19931]

Nut Zero

[@davidleavitt3804]

Make the "net zero" fools into ghosts.

[@robertbruce1482]

In truth, ( Net Zero Carbon = "Nothing is left alive." ) As all living things on earth are "Carbon Based" that means even tree's and water, and fish, and Bee's, plants in fact everything green, so hows that work out to be, a Green New Deal??? And of course all Humans So in truth they are telling you, they want to destroy everything. Now that's special.... Peace.

[@allouttabubblegum1984]

controlled opposition

[@andrewplatt7076]

Activists are always finding new ways to make our lives worse...

[@yengsabio5315]

And make wads of cash out of 'em.

[@83licata]

@@yengsabio5315 Activism is a business, very lucrative too!

[@jamesherron9969]

No service is purely political you see there’s four dams down stream on the Columbia from the snake river that are larger bigger Oregon and Washington don’t want to tear them out just the ones that will cut off Idaho’s Seaport destroying the economy of the last republican state on the West Coast. It is nothing more than straight up politics.

[@Emppu_T.]

They need to have something every minute to make themselves feel like they're better than everybody else.

[@lefantomer]

@@maxpower-u1t "Environmentalists" are primitivist lunatics.

[@forreal2398]

Time to jail everyone wanting the dams to be destroyed.

[@Mary.Petrie]

It's the same people that say nuclear power is evil, when in fact it is the cleanest form of power.

[@jonathanjones3126]

And newer safer forms of nuclear power plants are much more desirable then solar farms

[@sailnekkid]

I served aboard a nuclear fast attack submarine for 14 months ('66-'67)...... Have yet to glow in the dark..... Am verrry healthy and turn 79 the end of Sept. '24.....

[@Frostblast7]

Nuclear is the cleanest option for baseload as it provides a constant source of energy. Where it struggles is meeting the demand during peak hours where you want something that can be turned on and off at will. The cleanest option for that is.... hydro. In other words, environmentalists oppose the best options for all situations.

[@jillsipocz3582]

My Dad worked at Rocky Flats for 40 years. He is 85 and healthy. The people he worked with who smoked cigarettes are dead.

[@highlandermachineworks5795]

The only problem is thay we haven't figured out how to safely reuse radioactive waste to make even less of it.

[@KarateCowboy05]

It's important to call out that these people aren't pro-environment, just anti-human.

[@joedoe6444]

look at the salaries the people who work for these organizations make and you will find the real reason they exist. i have a cousin that works for WWF as a marine biologist, she makes a very good 6 figure salary. if these environmental workers really cared about the things they say with such passion, they would work for a minimum salary and put the money into their causes and not their privet bank accounts.

[@ccampbell7214]

Which brings up a great point! If they truly believed their own rhetoric/logic wouldn't it just just lead them to eliminate themselves, in a heroic effort to depopulate , since that is the agenda? Not advocating for infanticide ' KZbin ' just pointing out what a big lie these "useful idiots" are living... They change little, they are activists nothing more..

[@johnnynick6179]

@@joedoe6444 Environmental scientists are scientists that can't get jobs doing real science. They can only do "pretend work" saying scary things to help raise money for those willing to pay them.

[@russellgilson3536]

If they actually believed their own rhetoric, they would off themselves.

[@DraQinn]

Not all of them, but it's easy to think that.

[@espencer2151]

I live in Oregon. Last year, an activist group forced a complete drawdown of Green Peter Resivior over the winter to help Chinook salmon smolt travel downstream. Annually, about 4000 "possible native Chinook" are trucked up from a lower dam (Foster Resivior) and dumped into GP. They do not know if these fish were native to GP or if they where destined to continue ue up the south Santiam, but it's what they do. Anyway, the draw down was to help these smolt, but in doing this it killed hundreds of thousands of kokanee salmon, thousands upon thousands of bass, it wiped out spawning beds on the south santiam river, killed food for other fish on the lower dams and rivers and put untold amounts of silt an heavy metals that were once on the bottom of the lake I to the drinking water of three towns that were downstream. It decimated the fishing on the lake, and they plan on doing it again and again. There is no way to know if it will help the 4000 fish, but we know for a fact what it killed, and how it affected us.

[@BrandenH-O051]

Sounds about right for oregon.

[@allouttabubblegum1984]

More feckless Democratic leaders and their failed policies.

[@klausthedog9670]

Who eats salmon anyway?

[@tobybigham4196]

@@klausthedog9670 Lots of people! Because it isn't anywhere near endangered!!!! If there were numbers suggesting that they were in in trouble, they would be pulled off of Markets so fast, it would make your head spin!!

[@jdam568]

These radical eco terrorists are still ruining Oregon. It started with the spotted owl.

[@nathanmeece9794]

By removing dams you are also removing sources of drinking water. The dams also help with flood control

[@massivefilmco]

Not to mention irrigation to farmers who produce a lot of the food we eat.

[@molly_perkoset8045]

If you wanna live in a floodplain, cool. But why should we modify an ecosystem to protect people for choosing to live in an area prone to natural disasters?

[@shirothehero0609]

Yup. They want to prevent us access to water too. Electricity , water and food. I wonder why the government wants to create a lack in all of the resources that keep people alive..... Hmmm.

[@TPainWhatitDo]

​@@molly_perkoset8045Because the ecosystem is already modified (this video is about dam removal, not the construction of new dams) and it provides hydro power and drinking water.

[@johnkilty5091]

@@TPainWhatitDo Some dams only produce power. No irrigation or drinking water. They just removed 4 dams on the Klamath river that only produced power. Nothing else.

[@Vlabar]

When will we tear down the windmills? They are killing birds.

[@patrickgrengs7594]

The trouble with that is that you are thinking. The zealots don't think -- and likely are incapable of thinking. They are emotion-driven children just acting up and daddy isn't around to spank them.

[@roddycreswell8613]

Solar panels are known to cook birds midflight.

[@Tryp-j9d]

EACH windmill kills ONE bird PER WEEK!!!

[@Tryp-j9d]

@@roddycreswell8613LIAR!!! THAT was ONLY at the ONE solar CONCENTRATED SUNLIGHT plant. Solar PANELS…do NOT!!!!

[@mystiquesquared]

It's almost like...nah. Couldn't be.

[@ronhamm]

They aren’t ‘gullible’, they’re LIARS!

[@SoloRenegade]

the audience is gullible and believes whatever the liars tell them.

[@sues3218]

100% correct. They weaponize people's compassion against them, for personal profit. They are master manipulators.

[@tobybigham4196]

@@SoloRenegade I would say most of these kids now adays are programed. And the difference is really subtle. They went slowly from, stop deforesting rain forests, to stop spewing chemicals into the air, to we need to save this "Species" this week. Some things make sense, but honestly most of the stuff they are teaching these kids are "Manufactured" by people who want to get rich by selling solutions. This is why it is so important for us parents to be part of our kids lives! To be there to teach them how to research data for themselves! It was pretty amazing their solution for removing carbon from our air through fossil fuels, is by literally burning more fossil fuels faster! Most green energy solutions are just trading one carbon footprint for another! And the real goal, is that the people in charge have either full control of the new green solution, or they stand to profit extremely from it!

[@greglamothe5942]

​​@@pigjubby1in this world your God created there are no dams created for industry.

[@dakotadale567]

I worked on an environmental study proving what this guy is saying. There is no reason to get rid of these dams

[@IgnoredAdviceProductions]

What about the 15000 odd dams that are at risk of collapse around the country? A lot of these dams were built in the 1800s and have since been abandoned, and if we don't do anything we're gonna have a shit ton of Edenville/Stanford situations in the coming years.

[@jeffreyhutchins6527]

@@IgnoredAdviceProductions Those aren't dams that are threatening Wild Salmon runs. What you are talking about is a non sequitur whataboutism. Those '15000 some odd dams' are nor relevant to this issue.

[@aventuraexcellence408]

@@IgnoredAdviceProductions That is a different situation entirely and you know that. I don't know whether what you are saying is true or not since I'm not familiar with the 'dam industry' but if it is partially true that would be right there with other collapsing infrastructure, road, bridges, power plants, water systems, etc, agreed? I say that in the sense that because of the risk or for those structures at risk you fix the problem, again, entirely different than the point of this video though and I hope your info is true, if so it is something I never knew or even thought about so thank you.

[@IgnoredAdviceProductions]

@@aventuraexcellence408 Infrastructure is an absolute mess in this country, and yes, there are loads of bridges that are in the same situation, but I didn't see the need to bring them up as the video topic was about dams, but yes, there is a general lack of infrastructure maintenance in general.

[@IgnoredAdviceProductions]

@@jeffreyhutchins6527 I'm going to completely honest with you buddy, I've never once heard anyone discuss talking about tearing down dams for some fish, it's always within the context of structural instability and the potential for disaster. Even when they say it's for fish, it's old decomissioned dams that were posing a massive risk to public safety that they also tacked on the "enviromentalist" line to win brownie points. They build little fish ladders to jump upstream around the dam. It's bad reporting to make this the main issue when it really isn't in the actual profession.

[@dieselgrandpa4181]

In Idaho we love our clean renewable energy from our snake river dams , salmon is delicious as well

[@ArminiusVicious]

Our dams don't make much power at all. Especially the four lower on the snake. You should know that by looking at your power bill and seeing absolutely no effect nor realized savings from hydro

[@christinejarman4805]

Mike Simpson is in my district. I will do a no vote by not voting for him.

[@viperdemonz-jenkins]

as someone that lives right over the river from I agree.

[@viperdemonz-jenkins]

@@ArminiusVicious is no way to prove that without stopping the dams for a year and seeing if bill goes up or down and by how much. and am going to go more on the side of electric will go up allot.

[@tow-rn2qy]

@@viperdemonz-jenkinsthere are ways to know. Are dams not publicly reported?for energy output?

[@johnb3217]

There is money in fear.

[@garycarpenter2932]

power and control over the poeple.

[@DT-wp4hk]

Far left scam yes. People are fed up with those parasites

[@jackimhoff6767]

Grifters and sheep

[@Fred-mv8fx]

It's amazing people still listen to environmentalists.

[@markdanielczyk944]

What?🤣

[@jimedge8301]

Their not environmentalists,they are actavists

[@terrylandess6072]

Why do they remind me of the Fight Club support groups. You took rectal cancer? Okay, we'll take urinal tract infections. Never has the environment been in such danger :P

[@codyraugh6599]

It's because either A those people are uninformed on topics and don't want to be informed, or B they've listened to conservationists and Environmental Techs in the past and those guys typically actually do make good results. And of course then there's the political, while the people aren't listening to these nutjobs, the politicians will be because that's where the political power and money are. Because every politician ever always NEEDS a crisis and what's better than a energy crisis, it's what's kept Communist countries running for as long as each of them have run.

[@seth5308]

@@terrylandess6072 Personally, I could care less. I’ve got no kids nor do I want to inconvenience myself for you in any way, shape, or form.

[@ashleysmith2109]

If fish ladders are in place to allow salmon to still migrate upriver to spawn, it's a win-win situation. You’re producing clean energy and helping the salmon. One of the best places in Arkansas now for trout is directly below the Greers Ferry dam on the Little Red River. The trout are doing fantastic in the constant supply of cold water.

[@DeadChief-rj1sj]

If you lived on the Columbia River and your family keeps getting sick from the toxic waters. You just see things a little different. The Dams are literally killing the Columbia River. Fish die off's and toxic green algea. Our river needs serious help. I won't eat the resident fish because of the mercury. Also we have a major cancer cluster here too in the mid Columbia region. Zero Axis wind generation, solar and small scale nuclear energy plants could reverse the perpetual degradation of the Columbia River system.

[@RP-hq4ec]

Thanks John! This lifelong Washington resident thanks you for helping to bring reality out of obscurity.

[@airplaneguy335]

As a resident of Washington who will be severely affected by the dams, I thank you for educating people about the problems facing my area and rivers. The last dam on the river, the Ice Harbor Dam, was a pioneer if fish ladder technology, so much so that the design they used is still used in dams across the country, and the whole world. We also feel that the environmental groups only care about the electricity generated rather than the need for water control, which benefits the local economy surrounding agriculture. Many communities and farms rely on that water, and removing them would serve no purpose other than to increase the cost of living to those nearby and those farther away.

[@delikiz7467]

There are only 12 farmers who use the irrigation waters from the Ice Harbor dams vs. entire species that are going extinct because they are there.

[@bthemedia]

Sadly… tyrant king Inslee massively increased the cost of electricity even without removing these dams. We need critical analysis of the facts, these dams were built way before 1975 per 2:10 stats

[@j.t.5826]

they always use fear. Fear is the best weapon. Fear has killed more people in this world.

[@NPC-HonoraryRooftopKorean]

*Looks a CV-19 #’s* and still going.

[@garycarpenter2932]

if democrats weren't so damned gullible, the fear from politicians and media wouldn't work.

[@aaa7189]

@@NPC-HonoraryRooftopKorean people are still wearing their masks out side, haven't seen any driving with one on lately

[@furrycow9263]

That’s an incomplete sentence. “Fear has killed more people in this world…” than?

[@psa110]

It's called demagoguery.

[@RaymondLe-vo1or]

Tire of all these lies

[@Adamthegeek70]

Taking money based on a lie should result in jail time for fraud.

[@delikiz7467]

1000% true. The BPA has been taking money under the guise of "fish conservation program" while lying about the specific 4 dams. They only produce about 5% of the power the BPA produces on the Columbia. Their power has been replaced many times over in the last 4 years even through solar and wind. But hey they want to continue to lie and scare people that if these 4 dams are removed shit will go down. It wont. They already don't produce much energy during peak times.

[@dls951]

Now how are we going to put the entire Democratic Party behind bars?

[@BobRooney290]

minimum 30 years. build more prisons.

[@BobRooney290]

@@dls951 not just the party, their activists and voters too.

[@tobybigham4196]

@@BobRooney290 Imprisoning someone for casting a vote the way you don't agree with. Aren't you a loyal little liberal!.... Just because the other party is doing disgusting and corrupt things, doesn't mean you adopt their strategy and ethics!!!! Next thing you will suggest rioting when conservatives lose elections, and having total meltdowns everytime you don't get your way......lol

[@debrakelly4505]

BEEN WATCHING STOSSEL FOR DECADES- he never disappoints- wish all journalists had his integrity

[@tobybigham4196]

Most journalists get paid by someone to pass the message they want passed. Stossel seems to make his money now adays from clicks on youtube. His integrity isn't for sale, like most!

[@UnitedWeStand2020]

Humanity will eventually destroy itself just over stupidity.

[@northrockboy]

they aint stupid. they plan and know outcomes. set up total control grid.

[@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever]

Well, _western_ humanity anyway. They're not doing this foolishness in some countries in the world

[@arturoanton2958]

​@@LynyrdSkynyrd.4EverChina and Russia will survive.Thats why the west hates them: they don't let the big corporations to steals their resources.

[@strix-nebulosa]

Western civilization will destroy itself, the rest of the world will be fine

[@Ntmoffi]

We're headed straight towards guzzling the Brawndo.

[@SteveSavage79]

I appreciate your work to journalism, it’s becoming increasingly rare.

[@monocogenit1]

That guy hit the nail on the head...."It's more about feeling good, than getting results...". This is one reason EVs are so popular.

[@haroldsmith7044]

You said it. It sort of reminds me of something Thomas Sowell wrote once. He said the way to judge economic policy is not to look at the intent of the policy, but to look at the consequences.

[@msilvama1990]

Oh maaaan, you are saying that capitalism profits off the climate change fear????? But I thought in the free market world, we all benefit. And you are telling me, only those selling EVs are making profit??? Nooooooo waaaay, there is no way this happens in capitalism, I am sad to discover this 😂😂😂😂

[@arknabul2760]

@@msilvama1990 Free market world was killed many decades ago.

[@delikiz7467]

Yes that is 100% the case with the so called "fish replacement efforts" the BPA adds on to our utility bills. They have all failed to produce results, but the BPA feels really good that they can get the money from the government and then charge rate-payers on top of it.

[@OregonWildmanAKAsasquatch]

Virtuism

[@gregoryeverson741]

33.5 billion to destroy 4 damns? That is insane amount of money.

[@makojuicedaniel9307]

Thats just theft of ypur tax dollars.

[@SydNixon]

TVA spent $5 billion on a nuclear plant with your money and decided not to compete it!

[@KennethSee]

Yeah, that’s about .5 Ukraine wars!

[@SenileOtaku]

All the tree-huggers gotta get their kickbacks.

[@Petar120]

​@KennethSee only 1.7% of the Iraq war, or half of thr amount the US left in Afganistan, so not so bad.

[@edrob99]

Worst two words in the American lexicon - Environmentalist and Activist!!!!!!!

[@tobybigham4196]

Technically, the Environmentalists that I grew up with back in the 70's and 80's would be physically ill by the actions and the words of these new Fake Environmentalists! Heck, even Captain Planet wasn't this delusional!!! lol

[@davidkledzik2724]

I live in Idaho, home of the majority of the Snake River, and the activists are bold face lying. All one has to do is look at the salmon counts on the Columbia River, all the way to Lower Granite Dam which is on the Snake River, and hundreds of thousands have already passed through Bonneville Dam, and The Dalles Dam on the Columbia River on their way to assorted rivers and streams in the Northwest. And Several hundred thousands of those fish will make it to Idaho, through the Snake River, and the Salmon River, Clearwater River etc. There are literally hundreds of videos showing salmon and Steelhead passing through fish ladders and counting windows through the years, including this year. Over commercialized fishing is the worst hit on salmon populations, not hydroelectric dams. Activists must really want to live in the dark ages again. Such fools!!!

[@kapirk2244]

I am getting so sick of stupid people.

[@zackperry1594]

Me and you both

[@bobm9509]

I liked it better when they wore masks.

[@jesse75]

There's no help for some people.

[@zerkfitting]

That's what you get in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. Some of the most emotionally challenged voters in Washington State.

[@zerkfitting]

@@bobm9509 I wish they would volunteer to fly to Mars and settle their own colony. Elon would have incentives for them like FREE Cyber trucks, Tofo, and Pumpkin Spice lattes.

[@mrbuttons1243]

"Tear down the dams." Brought to you by people who have a stake in wind turbines and solar.

[@otmargreb6110]

Bingo!

[@robertbruce1482]

And yet wind turbines kill more birds that you can fathom.. Peace

[@minigunner1218]

Especially the ones who reside in the San Fran bay area, who get their power and water from a dam and routinely shoot down efforts to tear that one down. Also said dam is in a national park.

[@hadleyxdurmom]

Yes useless dams!

[@randysmidt2702]

Yep

[@troywatson4686]

Thanks for keeping your integrity John with real journalism!

[@shellyspackman738]

Live by the Snake river . This is going to kill the states of Idaho, Oregon, Montana! It’s all political.

[@donder172]

It's intentional.

[@TheGhostOfSmedleyButler]

Dam removal stands today as a monument to Unintended Consequences...

[@TwilightMysts]

When your livelihood depends on a story, you will believe, agree with, and promote that story. Doesn't matter whether it is scientists, politicians, environmentalists, televangelists, or something else, across the board this has been proven true over and over.

[@ResortDog]

So with the wise application of science and discussion, the greater good will always be served and the greater damages always avoided.

[@astronautical1082]

You don't understand the difference between self-interest and selfish-interest.

[@rucker69]

@@astronautical1082 then what is it?

[@Smirch72]

As an Idaho native, I very much appreciate this report. You're getting better with age Mr. Stossel!

[@TheWizardGamez]

Nuclear. Nuclear power

[@SilverSmurfer-fn5pr]

Washington State also built the Satsop Nuclear Plant back in the early 80s, but never turned it on. So it just sit there to this day.

[@Dustinicus.]

​@@SilverSmurfer-fn5pr they were right on the verge of opening it, but now they are dismantling it and selling off the land as a "business park"

[@jamesherron9969]

@@SilverSmurfer-fn5pr yeah, we called that the whoops reactor whoops we really didn’t need that. It was never completed and costed almost 3/4 of a billion dollars in 1980 I don’t think you understand the last name is is there are 8×4 on the lower Columbia for on the snake they’re claiming the river is blocked by the dams and the salmon can’t make it up into the mountains to make babies, but they don’t want to tear out the 4 dams on the Columbia, which the fish would still have to travel through for 500 miles before they got to the snake river, and the dams on the Columbia are bigger taller wider, and there are absolutely no differences between them and the ones on the snake river other than their size. It’s political is to destroy the economy of Idaho, the last republican state on the West Coast by tearing out the four dams on the snake river you will destroy Idaho’s seaports

[@Jamesaepp]

Yeah, because environmentalists have never had opposition to nuclear.

[@johnbland1422]

The activists won't let them build a nuclear power plant, they can actually generate inexpensive energy, they pollute to much and there might be a meltdown.

[@Worm8theBird]

Come Lord Jesus! ❤️🎺🙌💯

[@damnsurfer522]

I live in Idaho and as a fisherman if the numbers were low, they wouldn't sell a license to fish.

[@AttacMage]

Yup. At most, places like Strawberry Reservoir restrict the amount you can catch during spawning seasons.

[@tobybigham4196]

Yes!!! And I doubt you can buy most endangered species at the grocery store for $11-18/lb. Last I checked, endangered species are not slaughtered and sold..... but what do I know?

[@WeylonJennings]

They'll tell you those are "farm raised salmon" and the need is to preserve "wild salmon". But I totally get your point. The whole thing is a shameless sham to extort taxpayer money for a clearly evil purpose. The naked greed on display should be obvious to anyone with an IQ over 70.

[@AttacMage]

@@tobybigham4196 there is a difference between farmed and wild salmon, tbh.

[@tobybigham4196]

@@AttacMage No kidding. It is almost like one is farmed and one is wild..... That is some heavy stuff you are laying down Captain Obvious!!!! Thank God you came to the rescue!!!🤡🤡

[@renothompson9855]

Stossel, the most trustworthy reporter of ALL TIME. The GOAT of journalism!!!!

[@knottyboy6086]

Tear down the clean energy dams. Got it.

[@jordanangel4950]

Dams also help raise groundwater levels in the surrounding area and surface water helps animals survive the effects of extreme heat and cold, and reduce the impact of drought

[@Chrisuperfly1]

Activism is a business, if the problem was solved they would be out of a job.

[@metimoteo]

John Stossel always provides a full picture of what's happening.

[@markwng]

41 years ago, green propaganda stopped a dam in Australia. There hasn't been another dam built since. This is the thin edge of a huge wedge.

[@thedave7760]

Bolloks There have been loads of dams built in Aus in the past 40 years.

[@markwng]

@@thedave7760 name one

[@eriksvensson2098]

this is bs has been plenty built after

[@markwng]

@@eriksvensson2098 name one.

[@lachlanmc2335]

@@markwng Glenmea dam, took 5 mins on google bruh can u even type a search querry, the federal water resources manager claimed 20 new dams have been built in aus since 2003 im sure u can fine the others with enough looking.

[@toydixon6927]

I am a 5th generation coal miner and I can tell you right now we mine and burn coal here in the US cleaner and more efficiently than anywhere on the planet we are heavily regulated I worked at several coal mines and I can tell every one of them does their very best to comply to those regulations

[@jude175]

But if Trump were to lie his way to power, he has promised to remove those regulations and the dirt-poor miners believe him.

[@icetrey2468]

I live in a town on the Snake River in Idaho. Tearing down the dams is absolutely ridiculous. The great majority of Idaho electricity is generated by those dams. Not to mention the reservoirs that are needed by the farming community. And no solution to replace either of those things

[@SenileOtaku]

Ah, but farming is harmful to the environment, don't you know that? It's why some European countries are shutting down farms.

[@icetrey2468]

@@SenileOtaku you're right. I was talking crazy.

[@icetrey2468]

@@alamogiftshop fair enough. How about a much bigger percentage than any other source?

[@icetrey2468]

@@alamogiftshop how so? Trying to replace 40+ % of energy production on a whim is still extremely problematic. And your stat doesn't address the water issue at all

[@halhansen778]

Social media has replaced traditional media, and emotion has replaced fact. Money follows emotion.

[@stevemiller1517]

Don't forget the mood swings and feelings.

[@susan6722]

And traditional media is no longer factual either.

[@chachis-censored]

They have been tearing down dams because of these activists for 35 years.

[@charleswallace5434]

Trying to explain to stupid people is a total waist of time

[@floridaman7]

Waste*

[@jeanettejack2152]

@@floridaman7 I didn't want to correct him. Thank You Lol!

[@big_rockstar]

@@floridaman7 lol

[@big_rockstar]

lol

[@big_rockstar]

@@jeanettejack2152 lol

[@rosemaryhalderman8136]

I dont want them to tear out our Dams. My vote is NO!

[@BillGoodwin1]

"Tribal biologists." My eyes rolled so hard I hurt myself. Expect a lawsuit.

[@nopers369]

lol what?

[@danielcobia7818]

That eye strain is serious business!

[@flagger2020]

But anything tribal will invoke a federal law suit and a federal judge will bend over backward to give the tribe whatever it wants at everyone else's expense.

[@alexismendez2918]

And your biology title is?????

[@tobybigham4196]

@@alexismendez2918 We aren't holding ourselves up as biologists! Maybe if you wiped away the tears, you would know the difference!!!! Remember all those people at the EcoHealth Alliance holding themselves up as the esteemed scientists who know better than anyone else? Well, that didn't age well once the truth of Covid started coming out!!!!

[@nogood237]

Whoah. Those are some of the dumbest people i have seen and i have the internet. That is rough. Please ignore the idiots and leave the dams alone.

[@TearThatRedFlagDown]

Problem is that the idiots screech louder than us because that's what you do when you don't have anything intelligent or valuable to say, so they're the ones who actually get attention.

[@patrickgrengs7594]

@@TearThatRedFlagDown Yes -- I have seen and heard the screeching as well. They are toddlers in mind and behavior. Useful idiots.

[@ericgautreaux1752]

Those same people will next be crying about the cost of electricity.

[@vrm86gt]

exactly! They don't think 2 steps ahead before making a rash decision

[@bernat588]

We should all be crying about the cost of electricity we're paying now, since renewable energy prices have now dropped to lower than the BPA energy prices, not to mention the amount in the utility bills that are added to cover for the useless "salmon recovery" efforts the BPA passes on to you.

[@denisegaylord382]

And will whine incessantly about the fact that they can't charge their cars...

[@rockstarofredondo]

They’re already doing that!

[@KennethSee]

Of course they will. They want every thing for free. They have no concept of working for your own provision.

[@mamamia4745]

Destroying the dams sounds like an environmental disaster in itself! What happens to the debris?

[@richardkeen5828]

The uncomfortable truth is a hard pill to swallow.

[@jeteagle1457]

These activists don't have a clue to reality

[@sherrywestern3508]

Unfortunately, because of abuse of animals - which is totally unacceptable - animals are becoming “more important” than the human being! How can this be right ! Children and elderly people are starving to death! Where is the concern?

[@sassafras8677]

we de stroi 4k babies a year in this country

[@sassafras8677]

i mean a day

[@gwil9464]

Mike Simpson is one of the worst politicians in Idaho. A total RINO.

[@jamesherron9969]

The whole point of Terry about the dams on the snake river is to destroy Idaho’s economy to cut it, supports off and force the last republican state on the West Coast to a pitchy late to Washington, Oregon, and California

[@Joe-cb9um]

Why aren't there any dinos? Only rinos. And it's always the libs moving to red states and turning them blue while you never hear of conservatives moving to a blue state abd turning it red. Really sucks

[@hsolustri]

As a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska, it was the slowest year after 51 years. Talk to setnetters in Kodiak. Warmer rivers are affecting the runs amongst other things. I have no solutions but I wouldn’t believe everything that people are pushing.

[@MargaretCraddock-hy9yw]

Noticed you didn't get many likes there Mr. Guess most the folks here didn't want to hear the TRUE LIFE EXPERIENCE you have to share. But i thank you. Tell more.

[@jacobmiller6664]

I remember explaining this exact thing to my roommate in college 10 years ago, he was fully on the "salmon are extinct and hydro power is very inefficient so lets get rid of it" train. I was studying engineering and had literally taken a class on energy production. Proving him wrong with the internet and text books didnt change his mind.

[@patrickgrengs7594]

Your friend, and others like him, have Luxury Beliefs -- and tearing down the dams is just one of them. The belief is untethered from reality -- acting on that belief exacts a tab that he does not have to pick up ... until much later with significantly higher energy costs. Even then, these dullards will insist that it's worth it. Some, perhaps quite a few, people simply have no capacity for thinking -- the wet-ware is not up to the task.

[@astronautical1082]

@@patrickgrengs7594 Idiocy, Idaho's lost salmon fishery would be second only to agriculture in the state if those salmon runs still existed. "Luxury" belief is actually assignable to those who think the larger ecology is expendable just to drive rapacious capitalism for the sake of empty heads like the former president.

[@jovetj]

Closed minds are the hardest thing to open. Just ask any Leftist.

[@shag139]

Yuri Bezmenov explains it all very well. How the Soviets did this and how once a certain point is reached there is NOTHING you can say no facts you can show that will change their minds.

[@SenileOtaku]

"...Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time, and it annoys the pig..." Robert Heinlein understood the futility of teaching people who refuse to learn.

[@livingunderarockunderarock9963]

Save a salmon, Eat more sea lion! Is the takeaway for me

[@jonathanjones3126]

I wonder what sea lion tastes like

[@bobby-ov9qn]

@@jonathanjones3126 I'm told chicken.

[@epstiendidntkillhimself20231]

and shark and orca and any number of others species that have high number that eat the salmon.

[@adrianalexandrov7730]

Eat vegetarians )))

[@Ntmoffi]

​@@adrianalexandrov7730I would if they were attractive. 😉

[@philly799]

When I go salmon fishing in WA state: I drive several hours to my favorite fishing spot. I pay hundreds of dollars for travel/lodging/charter. I get on the boat and then drive another 1.5 hours to the fishing spot. Due to regulations, we are only allowed to keep a very specific species of salmon, and it must have been born in a hatchery (there are ways to tell). About 24 out of 25 salmon that we catch are born wild, and therefore we must throw them back. We spend hours doing this. With 4 anglers on the boat, we go home with 8 fish, and we throw about 100 back into the water. Once a salmon is thrown back, it is usually tired and/or wounded. There are sea lions everywhere, licking their chops. Almost every fish that we throw back gets eaten immediately by the sea lions. This is just one boat out of hundreds per week that go out. Fixing these ridiculous regulations would be a great place to start.

[@GrandsonofKong]

Thank you John for putting out this info out there. I live in the Columbia River Gorge Area and Indigenous/Native Tribes have numerous "sustenance" Salmon Fishing setups going on. The do so well they sell the Salmon in nearby towns. Way beyond the sustenance fishing as I understand it. If they can catch enough to sell excess, then clearly the Salmon are doing well. After the actions that totally ignored the needs of those affected by the recent Klamath River dam removals for still unknown(it could be over 5 years before it's actually determined to really help) Salmon population recoveries, it's insanity to even consider removing the Snake River Dams. To address the loss of ability of Barge Traffic to go up the Snake if the dams are removed, the environmental groups sight that railroads can be used instead BUT every time a train derails in the Columbia Gorge the same groups cry that the railroads MUST be removed from the Columbia Gorge. Regarding Electrical Production loss if the dams are removed, Wind Turbines are trotted out, covering thousands of acres of land and how many millions of dollars for construction/maintenance/ and into existing Power Grids? And dare I bring up decimated bird populations in other Wind Farms? If this happens, can the call for the removal of the Dams on the Columbia River be far behind?? Plenty of historical pictures flooding in downtown Portland before those dams were built!

[@sole__doubt]

I love John but he still after all this time gives the media a pass. They are not gullible, they are complicit.

[@sole__doubt]

@@mobiusraptor7 I get that, hes an older guy and he probably really wants to give the people who worked with him, the benefit of the doubt. However this go along to get along is what got us to where we are.

[@benjaminsmith5811]

People have too much time on their hands....

[@TheSimba86]

they are useful idiots

[@williewonka6694]

Yes, "Idle hands do the Devils work".

[@libidinousbear4563]

Hoover Dam alone produces about 4 billion kilowatt hours of electricity every year. A full pound of coal produces about 2.86 kilowatt hours of electricity. Every year Hoover Dam saves us from having to burn 1.14 billion pounds of coal to power peoples homes.

[@nerdicusdorkum2923]

I am seriously struggling trying to understand how huge 1.14 billion pounds of coal is. Any way you can post that in terms of volume if possible? At the very least, I can at least it imagine it being bigger then several houses, though I suspect that's a seriously low ball.

[@TravisHartin]

@@nerdicusdorkum2923 Here's a simple way to think about it: 1 billion lbs is about 500,000 tons. Regular dump trucks can carry up to about 20 tons. It'd take about 25,000 dump trucks to carry 1 billion lbs in one haul. So, imagine a line in traffic of about 25,000 dump trucks each with a full load of coal. This isn't a perfect example, but you get the idea. In terms of volume, a pound of water is about 16 fluid ounces. There are 128 fl oz. in 1 gallon. Large swimming pools can have about 20,000-30,000 gallons (some even more). 16 billion fl oz of water would fill hundreds of thousands of pools, depending on the size. In fact, I did a quick Google search and Sharon Lake (in MA) reportedly holds about 68 million gallons at roughly just under 400 acres. So, 1 billion lbs in volume is a lot of volume.

[@AliensForLife-jn9ut]

The nuclear power plant in Beaver County PA products 19 million kilowatt a day, and from 2005 to 2015 people wanted to close this plant because people are so stupid, they don't get how clean a nuclear power plant is.

[@AliensForLife-jn9ut]

​@@nerdicusdorkum2923try skyscraper in size. There used to be 2 coal power plants around where I live one in Beaver County PA by the nuclear power plant, and another one on Ohio side route 7 by the lock and dam. The amount of coal that layed in there holding spots were 3 to 4 stories tall and maybe the size of 2 or 3 city blocks.

[@eastbaykidd8574]

@@nerdicusdorkum2923 A 100,000 Lb capacity coal hopper as used by the railroads is about 60 feet long, A mile of coal hoppers is 88 cars or 8,800,000 million pounds. Divide 1,140,000,000 by 8,800,000 and you get a train that is 129.5 miles long, not counting the locomotives you will need to move that train.

[@Redpawdave]

Eighty one now, I lived (a 6/7 year old kid) in late '49 to '51 in Central Oregon. The floods were awful and cost some folks their animals and crops... every year. Then the US Army Corps of Engineers undertook a flood control project on the middle fork of the Willamette river. A couple of dams later and folks' homes and livestock were safe year to year. I've seen wild wtaer! Its destructive and ruins families' homes. If you're a city folk, you don't get to vote on dams and floods and fish! Those dams didn't go in to have something to do!

[@Dustinicus.]

They complain about the salmon population, while they have gill nets all the way up the river catching them

[@sylphmoon9657]

And the salmon caught in them are left to rot on the beach.

[@josephbaker4319]

And they were gill netting the spokane arm this year using tax payer dollars to target walleye with their nets. These indians and purple hairs lack common sense and moral fiber.

[@Glaciershark]

Gillnets are a reasonable way to harvest fish they just need to be regulated

[@kaielwyn]

Gilnetting is actually a very carefully managed industry. Every day of the season, biologists track how many fish make it upriver to spawn and they use that to determine how much the boats will be allowed to fish in order to maintain sustainable numbers. Trawling boats, on the other hand, are completely unregulated and result in tons of bycatch that ruins the ecosystem, this has already happened in the New England area

[@Glaciershark]

@@kaielwyn I know i am a commercial salmon fisherman in SE Alaska. I have a gillnet permit and a troll permit. I mostly troll but gillnet is doing better this year in our local river. Actually the sports fleet has the most impact anymore i believe.

[@WT-Sherman]

Rush Limbaugh called it - “Symbolism Over Substance “. Makes them feel warm and fuzzy inside.

[@WT-Sherman]

@@alamogiftshop When did Rush ever claim to be a great Christian ?

[@WT-Sherman]

@@alamogiftshop Which Church did Rush belong to ? What’s an “Open Christian” ? You must have been a regular listener of the Rush Limbaugh Program. What is it about his personal life that you deem to be hypocritical ?

[@WT-Sherman]

@@alamogiftshop You called him a hypocrite. Where’s the evidence ?

[@WT-Sherman]

@@alamogiftshop Give me an example of Rush not being genuine on where he stood on politics.

[@WT-Sherman]

@@alamogiftshop You called him a hypocrite. You can’t give me a specific example. It’s ok to disagree with his conservative politics. But don’t resort to name calling if you can’t back it up. His description of modern liberals as being “Symbolism Over Substance” is accurate, so I shared it. Nowadays we call it “virtue signaling”. Same thing. Still makes liberals feel warm and fuzzy inside, but it accomplishes absolutely nothing.

[@johnwright6706]

Remember, salmon is the only endangered species you can still legally buy and eat.

[@drew6194]

Funny about that, isn't it?

[@kgoblin5084]

@ArshAZ83 " complaining about Atlantic salmon pops in regard to the Snake River dam in the Pacific side." So they're complaining about the one species that is actively commercially farmed? Still not exactly a point in their favor to complain about the one species we could pretty much instantly revitalize by releasing the farm populations back into the wild.

[@RIbigDave]

That's because they're not actually endangered

[@Capdub]

Because salmon aren't endangered 😂

[@WeylonJennings]

This is why they're also pushing the "Native traditional way of life" card so hard. The naked greed on display should be obvious to anyone with an IQ over 70.

[@ExtraMedium-]

Idaho Power operates most of the dams on the Snake River. They also operate fish hatcheries that help replenish the salmon and steelhead populations. The Hell’s Canyon dam doesn’t have fish ladders, so most of the snake river doesn’t have any salmon. But we’d rather have electricity than salmon. These activists aren’t local.

[@jonathanjones3126]

Most activists/protestors are imported

[@thartwig26]

So basically, just put a fish ladder in Hells Canyon. Of course that wouldn’t make them happy!

[@skipperclinton1087]

​@thartwig26: Not that simple. Salmon go back upstream to the place they were hatched to spawn. You can't just teach them to use the ladders to go upstream to spawn at a place that's foreign to them. They don't just swim to the hatchery either. Hatcheries are in place to replenish the populations that are needed to feed the other species' need them to survive. It's called the "ecosystem"!

[@jonathanjones3126]

@skipperclinton1087 except the salmon are using the fish ladders and have for a long time.

[@patrickgrengs7594]

I know this is a tough one to comprehend (for the activists [toddlers]) but humans are more important than fish. Trouble is, the toddlers align, mentally and victim-wise, with the fish.

[@chadillac365]

I would take a dam over wind turbines and especially over solar panel fields anytime.

[@whitepaperkat67]

I remember and they were doing the same thing about the bees come to find out there's more of them now and Don't those wind turbines harm birds

[@p.w.352]

Also, native bees out perform honey bees and never were in danger.

[@steve1000]

More polar bears, too.

[@mrridikilis]

we need MORE hydroelectricity in the US. Almost 60% of electricity comes from hydro in Canada! (US, only 6%)

[@loridorman8378]

RINO. Mike Simpson should be voted out!

[@jackjackson545]

So tired of being lied to.

[@rogerwatson5537]

"People don't want to believe their favorite environmental groups are dishonest" best quote that i have heard about environmental groups.

[@notreallyme7465]

Without energy a country cannot produce weapons to defend itself. ENOUGH SAID.

[@zillsburyy1]

MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Mihomiti]

When your whole business requires a problem to be solved, you can never let the problem be solved if you want to stay in business.

[@RIbigDave]

That's how I always felt about most consultants. Lots of money to be made prolonging the problem

[@merlinmetal1534]

Problem was solved, but the whining 🙄 goes on!

[@TearThatRedFlagDown]

Because if the problem is actually solved, they're out of a job and can't continue the grift for government grants.

[@quarantene3072]

Mr Stossel ... you are a cornerstone of what news once was. Our society perishing more by the day for the want of truth and sense. But by your contribution we have a hope that the Good will be discovered in the news you present. Thank you ,(LEGEND).

[@deathevokation1017]

Meanwhile my grocery store is full of salmon at high prices due to inflation from wasteful government spending on activism and other unnecessary initiatives, war, and bureaucracy.

[@lazarocuellar6130]

Social media pushing people wanting to stand out as virtual signals !

[@benjamincaron46]

When they advocate for tearing down hydroelectric dams, it makes you question, are they trying to turn America into Denmark? Or Venezuela?

[@theirmom4723]

Venezuela...Banana Republic

[@nopers369]

Yes they are. The US is being systematically dismantled. One piece at a time.

[@delikiz7467]

@@theirmom4723 Banana Republic for sure! lol

[@Joe-cb9um]

Amazing we're all watching it happen too. Other western nations like ​England have no 2a and thereforean excuse, but look at the Aurura Colorado apartment complexes taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and still no Americans using the 2a. Makes one wonder do people think the guns are going to shoot themselves?@@nopers369

[@Dennis-p2l]

Remove the dams without any plans to replace the lost electricity. They will need to burn more coal and gas to make up for the lost power. Wind and solar will never replace Coal and gas.

[@ArminiusVicious]

Those four dams barely produce enough power to run a small town for a day since they weren't designed for hydro.

[@Dennis-p2l]

@ArminiusVicious So just burn some more coal or gas to make up for the loss? Oh just put up more worthless windmills that don't end up paying for themselves especially without taxpayers bailouts.

[@shakesitoff1122]

People are extremely gullible!!!

[@bobby-ov9qn]

Certainly Democrats are.

[@TearThatRedFlagDown]

You mean the left is. Because an inherent feature of leftism is that it's the position of low information and often disinformation. Left wingers are not grounded in reality.

[@romeyburgin7221]

Why can't these groups be sued for slander?

[@romeyburgin7221]

@@alamogiftshop The environmentalists groups that make these false claims.

[@romeyburgin7221]

@alamogiftshop No, the environmentalist group should be sued for lying about claiming that the salmon population is near extinction. They are lying to raise money from those who blindly believe this propaganda. The organizations that should sue are the organizations these environmental groups are lying about. Expose them for the lying "dog faced pony soldiers" they are!😁

[@ryanryan1583]

Isn't that 90% of environmentalism? Feeling good over actually doing good

[@tobybigham4196]

Hard work can be really taxing. You don't expect these precious kids to break a nail, or break a sweat?.....lol

[@LukeDupin]

I've lived in Idaho all my life (41 years), Back in the 90's the runs WERE bad, but since the early 2000's the fish runs have been great.

[@soyoucametosee7860]

There are fish ladders built-in these dams. The fish use the ladders to get to the spawning areas . Wind mills kill hundreds of thousands of birds every year.

[@ksteak27]

DAM LIARS.... always.

[@GerardIrvine]

Environmentalists are going to be pissed off when they find out about waterfalls.

[@greggdsciotto8952]

Thank you Stossel!

[@Victor-it6bv]

They aren't even willing to live in thier own Utopia but they expect you too.