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This was earlier this year. Link:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/beaver-dam-czech-republic
These eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2 million
Do we really think that a beaver dam is the same level of safety/long term investment as a $1.2 million dam?
I get that they're trying to be clever or whatever with this headline, but it just comes off as more low-key "government can't work" propaganda.
Do we really think that a beaver dam is the same level of safety/long term investment as a $1.2 million dam?
I mean, the dam is self-repairing.
The dam is also environmentally friendly - beavers have been building dams in the area for 30 million years, the ecosystems are evolved to live with beaver dams.
Safety? In the wild? I mean, a beaver dam doesn't need safety features because a sane person doesn't expect it to be safe to interact with a beaver dam.
Longevity, not sure, but at least it can be replaced by humans if it breaks at a later date.
Nice beaver.
Thanks, I just had it stuffed
Unexpected Naked Gun reference
Gerhard Schwab, beaver manager
Incredible job title. 🙃
We don't talk about the incident.
Beaver: "Pay up!"
That image doesn't appear in the linked article. In fact, a simple image search suggests that the image is of a beaver dam in British Columbia and the picture demonstrates the ability of beaver dams to block/filter sediments out of water after a heavy rain. Why do people feel the need to make shit up when the real story is cool enough?
It was probably just the first result on the image search of "beaver dam aerial shot."
How did they do this with no profit motive?
And no teams meetings?!
without ai assistance‽
That’s the reason it was made quickly, efficiently, and works so well. No emails, no meetings, no AI slop.
I wanna be like beavers.
They did do it for a profit motive. Through whatever instincts or thought processes the beavers had, they figured that they would benefit from damming the river. The dam creates favorable conditions for hunting, nesting, and storing food. These benefits are a sort of profit. Money is a convenient kind of profit, because you can easily turn it into whatever other kind of thing you want and you can store it for later use - and also it is convenient to talk about in economic terms, since it is uniform and easily quantifiable. But no one (or, few people anyway) want money purely for the sake of having money - they want money because it allows them to have other things. Food, housing, good conditions for mating and raising their young.
Sorry. The beavers were only in it for themselves.
You almost had it, but the for profit (in the marxist The Capital) is exactly what you said here:
"But no one (or,** few people anyway**) want money purely for the sake of having money"
That phrase, that "Want money purely for the sake of having money" is the definitive aspect of capitalism.
What you implied the beavers did is a Commodity-Money-Commodity model (edit: money=work realized in case of beavers) and it is what commerce does and how humans lived before capitalism (no sarcasm but humans lived quite well without the machinery of capitalism).
You make it very clear with the phrase "they want money because it allows them to have other things. Food, housing, good conditions for mating and raising their young."
This is C-M-C model, which defines the proletariat.
Now, capitalist (which makes capitalism exist) are exactly the opposite.
They live based on M-C-M model.
They only purchase a commodity with the intent of turning it into a profit.
In short, they use money for the sole objectivity of having more money (so that they can use more money to have more more money).
This is capitalism:
Turning the monetization the end goal and the winner(???) is the one with the biggest numbers.
Almost had what? You seem to be reading a lot into my comment. Also, the way you are phrasing it makes you sound like a pompus asshole.
So what you say is that Beavers are filthy little capitalists?
Yes and no. They are petite bourgeois. They own their own means of production.
More like semi-aquatic homesteaders.
Timberborn update looks sweet
Leave it to beavers
gee golly that's a great comment!
Those beavers just stole our jobs!
They took our jobs!
Der terk er jerbs!
Hur de dur!
I live in NW Ohio qnd have thought about how beneficial it would be for the state to revert a few hundred acres along the Maumee river back into a wetland. It would reduce loads if the algal blooms that devastae Lake Erie. Some natural wetlands and beavers would mitigate ao much of that, but the farmers around here are completely opposed to any such ideas
We are the extinction event
I just read the article. Good job beavers, and great story!
But it says nothing about dirty water. Just the image here does. Why was the water dirty, is there any info on that?
The article only says, "to address water issues." Maybe they read that to mean there were issues with the quality of the water.
But "water issues" probably more frequently means that the humans have issues procuring enough water, and so in this case they wanted a dam for a water reservoir.
The picture looks like a lot of silt in the water, a dam slows the water flow down which helps a lot of it drop to the bottom.
Although the clear difference in each side does seem surprising to me, perhaps the dam is fine enough that sand/silt builds up on it and it acts as a filter as well.
Beavers: It's what we do. Now clean up that dirty water!
I guess the water could be dirty from sediments without it being unnatural or bad in itself. I have no idea if that's the case here though. In either case beavers are awesome.
Beavers are awesome
Humans: Bureaucracy is slow, we have to consult the locals, we have to check the geology of the location, ensure that construction and materials are up-to-standards, we have no money...
Beavers: Fine, we'll do it ourselves!
Humans: Put their trust in a beaver dam, and find out the hard way why regulations and bureaucracy exist.
Aw hell yeah, fellow beavers