God, watching those kayakers, paddling in slow motion, to that dramatic music....I could barely make it entirely through that movie...Adrians wrote:http://vimeo.com/11894502[/video]
Movie about the Damming the White Nile river.
We had the chance to kayak there for past 4 years. Uganda and the famous river White Nile left us many emotions, we enjoyed the time spend there but the damming of our haven is the an disaster for us. So enjoy the movie like we enjoyed the time there.
Paddlers :
Peter Csonka, Nina Halasova, Vladimir Cako, Peter Scherfel, Milos Trnka, Jan Rusnak, Matej Fabianek
I nearly choked on the hypocrisy, white entitled westerners urging conservationism and environmentalism upon a developing country? Claiming that part of their objections to the Dam on the White Nile is based on environmental grounds. Do you hear that !?..... Thats the sound of their story ringing hollow. Ugandans deserve to have electricity, just like we have. They are generating it the most environmentally friendly way available to them.
Maybe paddlers that argue against it are just plain thick or stupid, that they cant see the sheer hypocrisy of their argument. In this case people from Ireland and the Czech Republic, both who use coal as their main source of power. Coal that's detrimental to the environment, where its mined, where its burned and where the remains are dumped. We don't surfer all of the downsides as we ship our coal from South America. I've never heard of videos being made about Moneypoint set to dramatic music and slow motion segments.
Cheap forms of generating power will always have some environmental impact, the long term impact being key. Simply weight up the cost of flooding the area above the dam, displacement of the locals and the effects of the managed water flow against the alternative, coal. Its that simple. Or maybe I'm missing the point, maybe its argument for Ugandans to simply not progress.
Either way I implore paddlers to apply some prospective and magnitude to their thinking.