This type of large scale engineering is quite dangerous, but still better this than what has happened for decades around the world and is still happening in Brazil.
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@reabsorbthelight to give estimates, we'd need to see if the increased applications lead to increased awards to US researchers (which is quite probable). One of these grants leads to about a dozen new hires, and it's very probable that senior researchers would want to pull their teams along.
@reabsorbthelight an average full-time professor does not cover the requirements for an advanced grants. That's why an average full-time professor doesn't get several millions of funding.
"The EC has budgeted €175 billion for the 10th Framework Programme, a follow-up to Horizon Europe starting in 2028. Eurodoc has called for a budget of €220 billion, Dengo says. “Without a substantial increase in funding, and with Europe-based researchers already facing intense competition, additional incoming mobility will inevitably further increase pressure on the system.”"
"Advanced Grants — for established principal investigators — saw the greatest leap in US applications, with the number nearly quintupling from 23 to 114. The ERC does not routinely publish information on the nationalities of applicants, but Kieron Flanagan, a science-policy researcher at the University of Manchester, says that he suspects many of these senior researchers are Europe-born or Europe-trained, and are “opting to use the ERC grant as a mechanism to escape the US system”"
@swlabr heh, that's a bit too much of generalisation for my personal taste. How many CEOs did you speak to in the last 5 years to make you so confident about their "state"?
Here's one about "jumping ships":
"world’s best-performing CEOs demonstrate remarkable longevity. They’ve held their jobs for an average of 15 years, more than twice the average tenure of an S&P 500 CEO"
https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-truth-about-ceo-tenure
Roadworks, Italian style
@choui4 most immediately, it destroys habitats, and even if sparsely populated, semi-deserts are habitats to extraordinary species. Totalitarian counties in particular don't have the mechanisms of internal criticism and self-correctiveness, and as a consequence risk moving too fast for nature to adapt.
Hardly comparable, because we're talking of an opposing action here, but here are examples of effects of water engineering:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern/_river/_reversal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado/_River/_Compact#Over-use,_climate_change,_and_other_issues
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gk1251w14o