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The '''North American Water and Power Alliance''' (NAWAPA) was a 1960s engineering scheme — developed by the Ralph M. Parsons Company — to redirect northward-flowing rivers of Alaska and British Columbia southward through a vast system of dams, canals, and reservoirs, irrigating Canada, the US Pacific Northwest, the Southwest, and northern Mexico.
"'''"NAWAPA''' is cited by name by Haz Al-Din — paired with JFK, FDR, the CCC, and the World Land Bridge — as the kind of project America no longer builds.


== Scale ==
== From the streams ==
* Would have moved ~20% of the Yukon/Mackenzie/Peace river flows; irrigated millions of acres; generated tens of gigawatts of hydropower.
[https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/infrared/8cmtrr2qw84/ INFRARED SHOWDOWN: HIGHLIGHTS] / [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/infrared-vods/hbo1cybs2vi/ full VOD 2021-12-03]:
* Never built: environmentalist opposition, cost, and the 1970s turn away from continental development projects killed it; it survived as the LaRouche movement's signature proposal.


== Infrared usage ==
> "We no longer have projects like we did with JFK and FDR — like NAWAPA and the CCC — for our youth to be hopeful for and for our communities to be uplifted by."
Infrared cites NAWAPA (alongside the [[World Land Bridge]]) as proof that the physical-economic solutions to American decline exist and always have — what is missing is a political force capable of executing them against financial and environmentalist veto. It exemplifies the "American System" tradition of continental development (Lincoln, Carey, FDR's TVA and Grand Coulee) versus the British free-trade/oligarchical tradition.
 
== Context ==
The citation comes in a discussion of a school shooting: the relevant crime, Haz argues, is not the parents or the boy but "the people who have been running this country and denying everyone in Michigan and the United States a future to believe in." Mass despair is the product of a society without development projects; NAWAPA stands for the lost tradition of continental engineering that gave youth a mission ([[World Land Bridge]], [[New Deal]]).


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[World Land Bridge]]
* [[World Land Bridge]]
* [[New Deal]]
* [[Corporate Socialism under FDR]]
* [[Corporate Socialism under FDR]]


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Revision as of 10:10, 21 August 2026

""NAWAPA is cited by name by Haz Al-Din — paired with JFK, FDR, the CCC, and the World Land Bridge — as the kind of project America no longer builds.

From the streams

INFRARED SHOWDOWN: HIGHLIGHTS / full VOD 2021-12-03:

> "We no longer have projects like we did with JFK and FDR — like NAWAPA and the CCC — for our youth to be hopeful for and for our communities to be uplifted by."

Context

The citation comes in a discussion of a school shooting: the relevant crime, Haz argues, is not the parents or the boy but "the people who have been running this country and denying everyone in Michigan and the United States a future to believe in." Mass despair is the product of a society without development projects; NAWAPA stands for the lost tradition of continental engineering that gave youth a mission (World Land Bridge, New Deal).

See also

References

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