icowden
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I suspect the focus will be on relocating the residents of the other villages in that valley before they too disappear.
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briantrumpet
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I imagine that there will be considerable contamination of the river for some time, and increase further down the valley for obvious reasons.
It's an interesting aspect to losing our glaciers. No idea about Switzerland but I visited a fair number of glaciers in Peru which have and continue massive retreat. They've been exposing "fresh" rock containing loads of heavy metals which erode and flow down the valley and have contaminated the entire valley meaning they can't grow anything there any more (and in those regions valleys are the main cultivatable land).
Ian
Mad Doug Biker
Just plodding along as always.
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Ocht, looking at the slopes on each side, just pave it over and make a massive BMX/Bike park!
secretsqirrel
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I have always thought the Swiss remarkably resourceful. A similar event happened in the Zermatt valley
https://zermatt.swiss/en/p/randa-rockslide-01tVj000005Dqm0IAC
They got the valley functioning again very quickly.
https://zermatt.swiss/en/p/randa-rockslide-01tVj000005Dqm0IAC
They got the valley functioning again very quickly.
matticus
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The Swiss are excellent at building long-lasting tunnels.
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briantrumpet
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True, though I'm not sure that the residents of Blatten world enjoy living in a tunnel... 😉
True, though I'm not sure that the residents of Blatten world enjoy living in a tunnel... 😉
Mad Doug Biker
Just plodding along as always.
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Give them long enough and they will built a little railway too!
matticus
Guru
Listen, I was just throwing it out as an option, OK?!?
Pross
Active Member
And Liverpool. The traditional approach was to flood large parts of Wales and force communities to relocate so that English cities could have water. It was very popular in those parts obviously and no-one is still upset about it 2 centuries later. Their beautiful areas though to be fair.
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briantrumpet
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Obviously this is the voter that UK political parties should be targeting. Totes consistent.
Ian H
Squire
A composite voter?
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briantrumpet
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Is that a synonym for 'confused' or 'stupid'?
Ian H
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What's a term for holding many contradictory opinions simultaneously? I would expect ancient Greek or modern French philosophers to have a term for it.
