As I wrote recently, California, in the midst of a periodic water crisis, is busily demolishing dams. Why? Because of the magic, oops, ‘spiritually important’ fish, according to the mythology of local Indian tribes.
Of course, as one reader pointed out, there are sound environmental reasons for at least building better dams that don’t impede salmon runs. In which case, why not say so? Why demolish four dams critical to water storage and power generation because, in the government’s own words, “fish that are culturally and spiritually important to several Native American tribes in the area”?
Why the need to dress everything in oogabooga mysticism?
