It's certainly a nice idea. The thing is that sometimes, we, humans, don't see the forest from the tree.
Here are two videos which should be regarded in relation to each other (as an example of the above):
combined with the following:
Just just food for thought.
Oh! I admit this was something I had never thought about...
And unfortunately learning to see the bigger picture is not something we are taught (trained should be a more fitting word). Thanks for the extra "brain snack" :P
(Yes, trained is a better word indeed.)
My pleasure! :D
I had similar thoughts when reading the article, that maybe they're upsetting some kind of natural balance that's needed for something else 'downstream' to work properly. ... But the thing is, the balance was already upset by human-caused climate change: the farmers used to have all the water they needed. ... But yeah, tough to predict these things and to know good from bad.