A few minutes of research revealed the problem is even worse than I thought. I thought he just hadn’t built any NEW dams in decades..
In fact, it looks like from this article.. that we have been DESTROYING dams by the 100’s for the last couple of decades! (over 500+ according to this article!)
Yep. I remember a few years ago seeing an ad by some corporation showing how “green” they are, featuring some eco-nut rhapsodizing about how warm and fuzzy he feels when he sees a dam being breached to “restore a wild river”, and shouting at my TV, “Just wait until the next drought, you moron!”.