[quote=@Hank]
[quote=@Holmishire]
Does banning really [i]solve[/i] anything?

To empty a lake, one does not simply build a dam. One must eliminate the rain.
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Being Dutch, I can tell you this statement is laughably incorrect. You don't eliminate the rain -- [i]you remove the lake.[/i] How does one do that? You fill it with land, Groudon-style. And then you build a nation-wide irrigation network.

I'm not sure how to translate that back into metaphor.
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Fuckin' Dutchmen, always destroying the environment...