[TheOtherHobbes]

There are plans for big tidal barrage projects, especially in the Severn Estuary. Apart from creating power they'd also protect cities from rising sea levels.

They always run into Nimbys who don't understand that sea birds etc are far more threatened by the direct effects of climate change than by projects that affect their habitats in a designed way.

[Angostura]

> They always run into Nimbys who don't understand that sea birds etc are far more threatened by the direct effects of climate change than by projects that affect their habitats in a designed way.

That's incredibly dismissive of genuine environmental concerns about immediate effects on coastal ecology

[Sai_]

Can you elaborate on where the parent comment is erring? Sounds reasonable that planned interventions like tidal power plants are more controllable than global climate change

[graemep]

That does not mean they are less damaging. They are definitely more damaging at a local level, and it is not clear that they are better at a global level.

[ryathal]

If I bulldoze a corner of you house for a planned turbine and say it's less damaging than a potential hurricane from climate change, it isn't going to make you feel better.