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Won't be the cocked up job that'll happen in the 2004 elections, or the bungling that is sure to happen when U.S. invades Iran. It isn't even going to be the human rights violations and genocide in Sudan.


It's the three gorges dam.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~kbstrand/facts.html
go there if you need to brush up on this topic.


We're talking about the biggest dam ever made on one of the biggest rivers in the entire world...and it's being left up to the chinese who are industrious people once they get past their government and it's incredible ability to make sure that every major project has no fewer than 5 close relatives running it. Already the filling of the reserviour is causing earthquakes in India. It's also built on/near six fault lines.

So many people are going to die. This is the end of China's incredible growth over the last thirty years.

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So many people are going to die. This is the end of China's incredible growth over the last thirty years.

Dams are a huge problem all over the globe, but hey, what can you do? It's those damn chinese. I'm seriously worried about what's going to happen to world as we know it, when China finally boost it's economy. I don't like a one-polar situation in the world (what we're having now) but China being the other polar is just incredibly horrifying. Hopefully people notice this thread soon enough.

If only China and the U.S. were allies. Wee could finally hold the world in the clutches of fear. Nobody would mess with that kind of power.

Dams are a huge problem all over the globe, but hey, what can you do? It's those damn chinese. I'm seriously worried about what's going to happen to world as we know it, when China finally boost it's economy. I don't like a one-polar situation in the world (what we're having now) but China being the other polar is just incredibly horrifying. Hopefully people notice this thread soon enough.


It's called the "Yellow Peril" and our grandfathers and fathers fought it on the islands of the Pacific in WW2, in the hills of Korea in the Korean war, and the jungles of SouthEast Asia in the Vietnam war. We too will likely have to take up the rifle and rally behind Old Glory to stop the yellow peril from consuming our nation and our civilization. It's the truth. Plain and simple, the truth.

Actually, in WW2 China was on the allied side.

Actually, in WW2 China was on the allied side.


Exactly, because they had to be.

It won't even work. The reservoir has no ability to remove silt build ups 100 miles from the dam. This will cause flooding, and as a consequence, cargo ships can't make it to Chongqing. On top of that, this means that its tremendous hydroelectric capabilities will be dramatically crippled.
The worst part, however, is a nightmare scenario. An earthquake may cause the dam to burst. If it does, it'll flatten Wuhan, and flood Shanghai. The Yangtze is not a river to be taken lightly with.

The worst part, however, is a nightmare scenario. An earthquake may cause the dam to burst. If it does, it'll flatten Wuhan, and flood Shanghai. The Yangtze is not a river to be taken lightly with.

Do you know that at this very minute there is a huge danger that one of those huge chinese dams in northwest China is in danger to burst because of the eartquake that took plave over there two days ago?

Do you know that at this very minute there is a huge danger that one of those huge chinese dams in northwest China is in danger to burst because of the eartquake that took plave over there two days ago?
No. I always though that China right now resembled 19th century America: economically swallowing more than it can chew. Now I'm beginning to suspect it's far worse than that.