Robert Caro’s biography of Robert Moses describes in detail the many externalities of his otherwise masterful projects. Perhaps main stream media should be required to add a “black box” warning to these stories. “The potential negative externalities of the candidate’s proposals are not addressed in this article.”
I did some preliminary work on a book about all the towns destroyed for these US reservoir and dam projects. Including those beneath Quabbin reservoir in Central Massachusetts.
Regarding the shortcomings of the TVA, it bears also to keep in mind that the Agency "became the country's worst emitter of sulfur dioxide, opposed black-lung and mine safety laws, took an uncritical view of nuclear power, displaced the Cherokees, and warred against pollution laws....even in the 1930s , 'grassroots democracy' often meant deferring to entrenched interests in the region, especially powerful white landowners," to quote liberal historian William E. Leuchtenburg ("The FDR Years" p. 160). As to the eviction of farm families and the flooding of their land, there is a little known but quite good movie on the subject, Elia Kazan's "Wild River" with Montgomery Clift, Jo Van Fleet and Lee Remick which shows up on TCM from time to time.
Robert Caro’s biography of Robert Moses describes in detail the many externalities of his otherwise masterful projects. Perhaps main stream media should be required to add a “black box” warning to these stories. “The potential negative externalities of the candidate’s proposals are not addressed in this article.”
One of the hydropower plants in NY is named for Moses
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses_Niagara_Power_Plant
I did some preliminary work on a book about all the towns destroyed for these US reservoir and dam projects. Including those beneath Quabbin reservoir in Central Massachusetts.
Regarding the shortcomings of the TVA, it bears also to keep in mind that the Agency "became the country's worst emitter of sulfur dioxide, opposed black-lung and mine safety laws, took an uncritical view of nuclear power, displaced the Cherokees, and warred against pollution laws....even in the 1930s , 'grassroots democracy' often meant deferring to entrenched interests in the region, especially powerful white landowners," to quote liberal historian William E. Leuchtenburg ("The FDR Years" p. 160). As to the eviction of farm families and the flooding of their land, there is a little known but quite good movie on the subject, Elia Kazan's "Wild River" with Montgomery Clift, Jo Van Fleet and Lee Remick which shows up on TCM from time to time.