The Patagonia Defense Council, with its partners from many countries, has been able to produce a detailed diagnosis of the ills of Chile’s energy model and has created a concrete proposal that would gradually, yet deeply reform the energy paradigm and re-orient it toward one that is socially and ecologically sustainable. The overwhelming scale of ecological destruction that accompanies large dams is the direct consequence of current patterns of economic growth and of particular modes of so-called “development.”
[source: http://ecowatch.com/2013/environmental-dispatches-patagonia-people/]
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