For example, the writer urges us to “pause” our hydropower pursuits because climate change poses a threat to our hydropower in the form of “higher flood risk from extreme weather events and GLOF risk,” among others. What he conveniently ignores is the fact that thermal plants in his own backyard are behind all these. He should be opposing these dirty thermal plants, which are causing our glaciers to melt, and not hydropower in Bhutan, which will pump clean energy into his backyard and help displace the thermal generations that will save our glaciers and rivers. glacial lake outburst flood