Quote Originally Posted by Stormhammer
Because we can survive without luxury commodities.
Water is a luxury commodity??? To drink? To cook with? To bathe with?

I don't know in your house, but in mine eating and bathing are REQUIREMENTS..... Certainly a heck of a lot more important than if a mussel lives or dies.


We can ultimately have water pumped in and have energy diverted towards us when that lake dries up.
Exactly how are you going to pump water back into Lake Lanier? It's not like our water system is designed to retrieve water for multiple locations. It is designed to get water from the designated sources. So you're either going to have fill up Lake Lanier back up to where the water can be drawn from there or fill up any other emergency reservoirs that are already connected to the water system.

Those mussels need the water to survive.
So? We do too. Why are they, who serve absolutely no purpose, any more important than us?


and far be it from me being a biologist, but there is a possibility of those mussels having a significant impact on the ecosystem it lives in etc etc - so thats simply why, we have the means to still have water and power, but we also technically control a significant means of survival for a species
Well, you can't have it both ways. One way you say that we are killing the mussels with our man made things and interfering with "mother nature", yet in the next sentence you say we (men with our man made things) should intervene and protect something that otherwise would go extinct.

Personally, I'd like to challenge anyone anywhere to show me how those mussels that do nothing and produce nothing do in fact pose some kind of absolutely necessary function in the eco system of any environment that has ANY impact on us as human beings. Not even the Corps of Engineers has been able to do that so far, so I'm pretty sure no "biologist" will either.

I just don't see or understand why millions of people should be made to suffer because of some mussels that do nothing. It makes no sense at all. I could understand it if the water was going to irrigate a huge food supply that would go to feed all of us, but mussels???? That are about to be extinct anyway??? Kidding, right?