"We can't have an unlimited budget to keep building these channels higher and higher so that the water will never flood over them," says Lee. Under the looming threat of climate change, we cannot go without a thorough reconsideration of our fundamental approach to flood prevention engineering; "It's time we gave the waters back to the Earth!"
「我們不可能有無限的預算去蓋不斷加高、永不淹水的堤防，」李鴻源指出，氣候變遷下，以「對抗思維」為基礎的工程防洪治水法是行不通的，「該是『還地於河』的時候了！」