Comments on: Dark Water: Artist Explores Consequences of Three Gorges Dam Project

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[...] & I kept missing it). Chang’s quiet portrait of those people affected by China’s 3 Gorges Damn project is a gentle reminder of the people hidden in the cracks of development projects. He follows a young [...]

By: BT

BT — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:31:20 +0000

Yeah, we read about this in our nineth grade history class this year. Of course, the textbooks were so old the article in it was from when they were planning the whole project out, before they ran into major problems while building it. I still don’t understand why they would want to lose more land, even if they do want to generate more electricity for their big cities. They already have too many people with hardly any decent place to live in the country, so why would they want to waste good land and historical sites? I guess they can’t change what has been done. Whats done is done.

By: Wade Ogletree

Wade Ogletree — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:51:28 +0000

Beautiful fantasy images. Of course, all the cities were destroyed before the flooding. The displaced people were relocated to new cities. The old have the hardest time of it, losing the place where they lived all their lives. The young take the move easier, enjoying the fact that their living conditions are improved. Modern dams like the Yangtze take silt into account, but they cannot do everything. The effects on local wildlie could not been totally mitigated. The loss of cultural artifacts cannot be undone.

The idea here is not a simplistic bigger for the sake of bigger. This is a devloping nation with a great need for the power to run their cities.

I toured the gorges recently. I understand a little of the nation’s needs and their pride in what they’ve accomplished, but I cannot escape pondering what has been lost. You can find my post on the Xiling Gorge here: http://betterfiction.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/30/

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By: lora bruncke

lora bruncke — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:10:35 +0000

I guess the people who want bigger don’t realize it is badder!
Dams ruin the rivers by holding back silt!
Dam it all!