Un-gorgeous 3 Gorges - China

[TheTechBite]

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[pradzee123]

There will always be some price to pay for any dam. I think it's totally worth it for this HUGE engineering marvel.

[LokiTime]

i'd love to travel to chong ching (however you spelled it) to photograph people's lives there... the city looks very interesting

[martyrocks81]

10:09..this guy explains it best

[nepalihercules]

@martyrocks81 he doesn't know what he's talking about. iron is solid, water is liquid. both have different molecular properties. water doesn't break or join like iron.

[seannaesseannaes]

@nepalihercules haha you dont know what your talking about, hes talking about the gouund the water is sitting on, it will erode and if there are caverns it will cause collapses

[undeadpresident]

That thing is HUGE

[spikydipple]

mind you probably better than using reactors

[spikydipple]

Great story. George Orwell is rolling in his grave.

[alicethetroll]

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[13SharkBait]

Australia, reporting...yawn!

[sAaLov]

It really is endangering the coolest structures, isn't it @ 12:22 :) . This report is ridiculous.

[rrmoh]

its also eroding..at the base.. wait till it fails.. it will be a sight!

[065wuhao]

I look up many Chinese geological journals but never heard a so-called well-known geologist called "Leihong Shun." Does CNN just find a random old man to support its idea? Geology is my hobby and I am quite surprised to see this. I defend Freedom of speech, but I really hate information from "forged" sources. CNN, you are a political liar. 3 gorges issues may be problematic at first glance, but I believe it's overall good for China's future.

[lmfao175]

y would they do that? there contry already has alot of buildings and stuff that disturbe the environement ! so y built a dam!? uhhhhhhhh idk guys im lost!

[smfarazm]

Love to china, from Pakistan..

[DefenceSpeech]

Why can't the U.S. do anything like this? Is it because Hu Jintao is an engineer instead of a a lawyer? The only engineer the U.S. ever had was Herbert Hoover nearly a century ago and do you know what came out of it? The Hoover Dam! What's happened since then? Well unfortunately most of the presidents were either lawyers or businessmen. I think to be president you should have a real talent to do something besides talking or stealing money from people, but what do I know? Good work China!!

[kiwiterran1]

damn he can speak chinese lol

[antred11]

Does anyone know the name of the song playing at 6:30?

[fdoca]

CNN is fxxx stupid propaganda media, this dam save million lifes , it effectively control the flood and free clean energy for 100 years to come.

CNN is really stupid media, Chinese gorvrmt should kick them out of China

[mikebarriga]

is this a god dam?

[MikeyMystery45]

Is it true that they fill up the damn with oranges and that orange juice flows out the other side?

[ferrariluver119]

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[SuperDickweed]

The Chinese have the right of it. Old proverb say, "Man who goes to bed with itchy butt wakes up with stinky fingers." Ahh San .... It is true.

[spectre720]

nothing is forever

nothing

[Erverino]

While hydroelectricity has it's drawbacks, it's still a very worthwhile form of energy. It's cheap in the long term and it's sure as hell more environmentally friendly than coal, oil, and gas. Btw, over 60% of all renewable energy is hydroelectric.

[chuckbyf1]

It is sad to think of all the old statues and art and buildings that had to be sacrificed but, it had to happen eventualy. We all knew one day China would modernize and become one of the largest consumers of oil, minerals, water and the rest. Just wonder how long it will take for the oil to finally run out, or, at least run low enough for the price to increase to the point where it will affect our prices and fuck everything up.

[Chodechinian]

this thing causes cancer

[ShroudTheSky]

@Chodechinian everything causes cancer now a days

[Chodechinian]

@ShroudTheSky hahaha so true

[trje246]

mass moved away from the axis of rotation will slow the object

[joseramonhernaiz]

so some people have to move?? big deal get over it

[jeffz2010]

@aussiep100

you may have a point, but delivery makes you a biggest twit of 'em all

plus - given your nick - you should keep quiet coming from a country which killed half of indigenous species and currently allows commercial sheep farming (which devastates species), commercial mono-species foresting (eucalyptus for paper pulp, which is like an A-bomb on dropped on Nature).

so start your species protecting closer home ... you will find plenty of work doing just that

[montero93able]

This may be one of chinas most recent projects but the dam itself wont even withstand a century, even if the project was built to develop, it ended up destroying mass landscapes and homes. Now this is the main target for any terrorist attack which will obviously result in chaos.

[hhamor]

@montero93able It can be a main target because of also the Dam represents China's overpowered economical prowress,which is dangerous for the world as China could easily overpower anyone economically with their knowledge on how to build marvelous projects as well as mass-production.

Countries will grow envious or timid of China's superiority so terrorism is a danger for the dam eventually but i dont see a dam holding much of a political significance.

[merilyn1]

I have sailed up the Yangtze river and the dam is an amazing project. The scenery is spectacular and loved the Little gorge the best. The people were friendly and kind. I would love to do the trip again. It is to bad that many people have lost their homes with the flooding of the dam but it will benefit China as a whole. China has to look after the displaced people. Chongqing is unbelieveable being such a mountainous city with no bicycles, just cars, buses, motorcycles and wonderful parks.

[trje246]

someone said that it has slowed the rotation of the earth with all that water now way up high and contained.

[whizzPOOM]

@trje246 haha that's a stupid thinking.

[MrMotorider85]

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!­!!! THEY WENT TO CHONG CHING,AAHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH­AHH,LMAO,ROFL,LOL.

[lzollars]

China's Titanic. The dam of despair. Great engineering, but a bad time to build it. Damning upstream would have put less pressure on the dam built in geologically unstable area. i pray nothing bad happens to this dam but i fear a massive earthquake could release so much water with millions of deaths downstream.

[nems79au]

It will destroy the river, just look at our snowy river dam in australia,we cant even eat the trout in the snowy river any more.

[natureboycool]

lol where you used to live in? its already under the water! haha but i feel poor for that guy.

[djattitude31]

The best educational video of my eyes in a long time. Thank you!

[TheSolarmike]

Sadly it may become a target for nuclear destruction. Could you imagine that dam getting nuked? It would kill many people and destroy lots of life.

[wikct2]

Why can the West consider this project is for the benefits for Chinese people. Stop politicize it...The lady is crazy to say that China is change the river to a disaster one.

[leogeeko]

Welcome to the world of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China). There is nothing the bankrupt economies of US. and Europe can do to stop the new world power.

[jimbojamesIV]

@leogeeko Who are the crazy people who thought it was a good idea for the 4 corners of the Earth to subdue the Earth and who are the crazier ones who follow them?

[DiggingTomcat]

justin beiber, 20 million hits. informative, intelligent video 18 000. says it all.

[90TGP]

people want alternative energy, well here it is

[meesheekinz]

Some people have been misinformed. Try this fabulous documentary entitled manufactured landscapes.

So many displaced people, disrupted ecosystems, polluted resources, cultural desimation; these are all very real and should not be overlooked.

[gigaboat]

this dam could  collapse in a few days , its cracking up

[S1587915G]

If the West hadn't started this whole industrialization thing two centuries ago and forced the rest of the world to follow, China wouldn't have had to build this dam. And there wouldn't have been global warming, ozone depletion etc etc.

[Sisomvox]

us lose 58,000 americans in vietnam war

how are u going to do with china??? fat assss

china the best communist in the word.

u are jealouse bcz china communist is so rich and powerful.

us will need more dollars from china to buy hotdogs

[WolYou]

to omit the emission of coal you dont build a monster-dam, you avoid wasting energy. why is the people not lookgin at the core of the problem? new energy-sources are not the solution of energy problems. if your bathtub leaks you do not put more hot water in it but you try to close the leak! isnt it?

[WolYou]

funny that there have been no worries about what will happen when the dam collapses. some kind of titanic-delusion has affected the political leaders. this piece on concrete and steel can collapse by earthquakes and wars. China is now easily black-mailable. Just threaten them to attack the dam. it would cost 25% of China's population, since they all live below the dam.

[RaidenXyooj]

@WolYou You hate China I see, you must had been scared.......You should be, trash-boy.

[WolYou]

and its the biggest thread. one earthquake could kill 300 million in 2 days. standing on a area prone to earthquakes, its a monument for stupidity. the sediment will make it useless in 10 years.

[drazosrbija]

amazing :)

[DumpYourTelevision]

5:47 says it all really... goes for everywhere in the world...

Corrupt govs run the whole place...

god damn it..

DYT!

[DEGAUSS138]

CHinese Western Northern frigin Eastern its all the same we're all Human. Why cant you people recognise that fact. Now with that said, im sure this damn is a terrible structure

[TheBravo345]

Is it just me, or does it seem that all of China is enclosed in clouds and haze or mist?

[obsidianstatue]

its mostly fog and moisture, southern China is very wet. thats way China has a unique landscape that NO other place have.

[TheBravo345]

Thanks!

[obsidianstatue]

omg western people are really fucked up, they accuse China being the number one polluter in the world and when China is trying to have a clean renewable way of generating electricity westerners starts critisis China again!!!　what the hell do they want, do they want the entire Chinese land covered with solar panels???!!!!!!

[gilbertruong]

Dude calm down. They just want China to be clean the RIGHT way...

[gilbertruong]

The right way is to do the homework before constructing something that would change the environment completely. Homework such as the science to see how this would effect the river... how cities would be effected.. etc. They can't just want something and make it happen.

[obsidianstatue]

lol you americans see everything in a smaller scale, the effect is prettey simple, you block the flow of water, water level goes up. tiny dams like the hover dam isnt going to do China any good. you guys are just jealous China builds everything bigger, in china we want something it HAPPENS.

[cuihao]

@gilbertruong 傻逼

[theREALshafan]

@obsidianstatue

why do you assume that all westerners have the same voice? the west has freedom of speech - the fact that one person here might criticise the three gorges dam does not mean that all westerners do.

[N0tolerance1]

Did she say the river does not flow as fast and thus does not carry the garbage away?? Away to where the garbage fairies!! Hey, maybe STOP throwing garbage into the river. Am I supposed to be concerned necause the garbage from China is not carried out to the ocean to pollute us all.

[Nyhee7]

why do we allow our selfish desires enable evil people to make us complicit in their designs?

Am I the only one who noticed that there was a total lack of respect for the lives of others in those interviewed? I think they have been taught to view themselves and others as objects of the state instead of people.

[mcminnman]

I hope the dam will not fail and cost millions of lives. The stress of a damn on the worlds 4th largest river will cause catastrophic earthquakes and the water is so vast that it should be effected by lunar cycles and lets hope the next full eclipse does not cause any problems........

[VitalFilmsInc]

There is also the fear that hydropower projects would even worsen global warming effect, because of methane which is a greenhouse gas even more powerful than carbon dioxide, because methane traps heat with significantly larger impact than carbon dioxide. Problem regarding methane lies in the fact that methane is produced by plants and animals that rot underwater and once water goes through hydropower turbines, methane is released into atmosphere.

[babil81]

i didnt say conflict and dam construction is comparable i said the loss of life or relocating of millions of people is compareable

[babil81]

im not chinese but still i will say that relocating 4 million ppl is much better than bombing them putting them in guantanamo or using white phosphorus on them

there will always be people who will complain about the progress in their region without seeing the future in sight

good luck to china

[steviebear]

this is completely different, bombing them wasn't an option....

[babil81]

my friend i think u confused here i said china is doing better than americans and israelis who are killing people for their own benefit

[steviebear]

No, a conflict and a damn construction are not comparable....

[Paddyslippers]

amazing engineering fair play to china to take such a huge step towards a greener earth hydro the way forward! i hope it never snaps like a piece of steel or there will be alot moe homeless chinese.. rock on china

[Croquantes]

lol. is that music from crouching tiger, hidden dragon?

[shootthedevil]

The Chinese are unfortunate because they couldn't colonize a fresh land like the Britian in America and Australia. Chinese have live on that land for millenia. If you don't tear down the old, how can you build the new? If you leave the land underdeveloped and behind the time, who to say the West won't come in a make it a slave state. What can you do? Sacrifice has to be made. The weight of 1.3 billion people is a heavy burden indeed. It is easy to criticize, it is hard to offer solution.

[ShroudTheSky]

@shootthedevil the west wouldnt ever come in and make it a slave state because you have too many pussy ass liberals and technically its against our bill of rights so it would never happen...

[sephodwyrm]

China's being building mind boggling canal and dam projects, redirecting rivers and hacking open mountains to rein in the floods. And they've been doing that for centuries.

[beancube2008]

The weight of water accumilated tilts the balance upon the tectonic plate underneath supporting big region. That hazard potential for earthquake needs a lot of data to understand. I believe we are very smart, but the hard works of studying reality are more vital. Entire country must re-evaluate professional morality in education. Any negligence of data study may cause huge burst. The weight on the plate may shifts again. Need a lot of study for we all love China religiously.

[leviraider]

Chip Tsao your country make a poisonous food,pirated cd dvd vcd,fake product,smaggler shabu or

[FuriousGator]

China is soooooooooooooo Retarded

jk o ma GOAW!

[nottypanda1]

China consulted with dam building experts all over the world and spent $30 billion US and over 20 years paying a quarter of a million people to complete this project.... So I'm gonna go with the fact this dam will provide far more benefit than the few that want to knock it.

It's easy to criticise isn't it? Fortunately there are still people in the world that are willing to actually do work instead of bitch and complain.

[aussiep100]

@nottypanda1 you uneducated twit. it's already been the sole cause of landslides, the extinction of species, and earthquakes. do some research of your own before throwing out your asinine drivel.

[douboymk2]

yeah of course you fucks will complain. you just ant deal with the fact that we an build this while you lot cant.

[bittergreentea]

Excellent documentary, I like how it presents both sides (the good and the bad) to the dam. Building it is one of those decisions that's really hard to make since there's no clear-cut, right or wrong answer to it.

[OhMymy]

The Caucasian interviews speak VERY good Mandarin!! Good Job!!

[54070965]

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[19851203zhu]

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[Jolinator]

thanks journeyman, best channel on youtube.

[zacatecastambor]

thank u, for this well done documantary.

[zacatecastambor]

well it can or not work, but if you dont gamble you never know, like in the united states if we dont drill in our home land we will never end the dependancy of forein oil. we must drill.

[HORlZON]

That's a pretty shade of green.

[bear9922]

死老婆子 快别妖言惑众了 不喜欢三峡工程  去你妈毛屋子里点蜡烛去 三峡是签合同的事吗 那可是举国之力修建了10年 看你那刷欺骗人的眼睛就知道你是只狐狸

[harkpau]

Excellent documentary. Thanks you. Stephen, you speak very good Mandarin.

[shadyhamster]

If over population is a problem all over the world, Humans should be exposed to more things that could kills us, Such as wounds. If we didn't use hi-tech medical equipment the victims would die, like they should, And by that I mean if we were animals, we would die in the wild. Humans have defied Nature for too long, and we are long over due for a disaster, or Plaque to diminish our population to a healthy number. I'd die for such a cause, would you?

[geoffreyphilip]

I think ur crazy. ur wasting precious natural resource everyday u live. i reckon u kill urself and we'll then think if we'll follow suit.

[phreakoutaston]

A well done doco. It shows the complexity of the issue. It's a shame that it takes foreign journos to explore this issue.

End censorship in China now!

[BxSuazo]

WOW!

[po3a8]

Maybe it's time for Chinese people to stop reproducing. Jesus Christ!!

[kanayumikumo]

lol what the hell...lol what good is gold if there is no one to value it? value them and they'll be valuable. treat them like shit and.....shit is what your gonna get.

[rrddhh]

There is already a one-child policy. If you limit people's reproduction even more, wouldn't it be an even bigger violation of human rights?

[po3a8]

How is it a human rights violation? If say the buffalo population in the US exploded all of a sudden, the solution would be to go hunt some buffalo so that they don't all starve to death later. If this logic can apply to animals, why not people? It's far more humane to just tell them all to stop having children. They can still adopt if they want. And that's not just Chinese, I'm talking about everyone... overpopulation is a huge problem. STOP REPRODUCING DAMN IT.

[rrddhh]

In your original comment you stated "Maybe it's time for Chinese people to stop reproducing. Jesus Christ!!" Clearly, you were talking about Chinese people.

With everyone complaining about the human rights so called "crisis" in China, limiting people more on what they are allowed and not allowed to do would simply add to the disaster.

[po3a8]

The video is about Chinese people. I added in the fact that I also consider it a problem for all people since you claim it is a "human rights violation" to make people stop reproducing if they don't have the common sense to do it themselves. There are things that are greater than "human rights" (let's call it what it really is: self-interest).

[rrddhh]

Human rights are self-interest now? I'm afraid I don't follow.

I'm not the only one claiming it's a human rights violation. Especially in a country such as China, where they are already limited to only one child, they treasure their only chance to have a child. Whereas, in the United States, where people are allowed to reproduce freely, they choose not to have children. It's more of a "you don't know what you got until it's gone" situation than anything.

[kelloggcerealxoxo]

your "population" claim should be directed at Indians. Many people always blame China for overpopulation, but the people who are actually overpopulating are Indians. 1.15 billion gaining at 4% a year.

[onimotoko]

there are enough chinks born each day to feed an entire 3rd world country, and still have enough for dessert.

[kelloggcerealxoxo]

sick japs, I'm not surprised.

[douboymk2]

theres enough nukes in china to fry you japs and compress the ashes to give everyone on this planet a jap diamond

[fiddeekberg]

Be kind! The Chinese people will with any doubts whatsoever be the new masters of this world in let's say 50 years? Or even earlier.

[onimotoko]

then I'll have to rape 'em all!

[usmc212]

Let's hope not. Chinese people have a tendency of not being very courteous, or polite; seeing how they speak, treat or act around other people. I already walk through Chinatown enough to even try to think of your situation ever happening.

[rxltube]

this documentary casually omitted the main function of the dam: controlling flood. There are more than 300 million people living downstream and according to the history, every 50 years there will be a flood that will overflow the bank and millions of people will lose their home and probably their lives. Once in a centry, the river will simply change its course. By controlling the water pass through the damn, there is at least a way to reduce the flood impact.

[TheMaster036]

But what if it breaks? The dam has more than 18 breaches in the concrete. Some of them as large as 30 meters in length - they are underwater, they can't be repared. The dam is just a wall of concrete in my eyes, not really a dam.

I just hope for these 300 million that the dam is not going to break.

[VOLVERHURTS]

the british have to call trash rubish. it sounds so stupid

[13triki]

This is icredible big, such it is the fact that it affects the speed of the earth in space. If something suddenly was to happen to the damn, it will make the earth wooble.

I think those who run the show in China have never pushed the chinese so much as of now, i wonder how much will they take?

Water always finds its level!

[lastnymleft]

Entropy is a fact of life. It'll take maybe ten years for the surrounding geography to settle, based on the new water levels, but it will eventually settle.

Producing enough electricity to power one-third of all the homes in China - via renewable energy - is a mind-boggling achievement. Hat's off to the Chinese for their achievement. Where injustices have occured, in the form of debilitated houses, may the government have the sense of justice to set them right, via compensation.

[yellowman88]

The government already knows of this injustice. It's not like they wanted to give them debilitated homes. They attempted to compensate them but failed at providing them a safe homes. It's like US post Katrina victims. The US government tried to help the victims with building projects and work programs but they just failed. The government doesn't have enough money to relocate them again. That is why China have that wait list going.

[decimuscarrerus]

lol they have the money, then again there is always money for war, not for the people.

[Haakcha]

It is very difficult problem. Ifear for the people. I loved film of The Three Gorges and I realised that it was only for a time because of this dam.

Technology can be a good and bad thing.I think the river was a gift from nature and to distort it in this way may not have been the best way.

[yellowman88]

how are you distorting it?

[Haakcha]

Hello Yellowman,I am not distorting it. If you read what I wrote I refer to the building of the dam as changing the natural flow of the Yangtse River and this may have an environmental effect on the area in the futre. best wishes Haakcha.

[fiddeekberg]

This dam will provide electricity to over 400 million people. As long as China's government will take care of the victims of this project I see no reasons why it shouldn't be carried through.

[kabayegainsaf]

china iz gr8

[rkmn88]

the complexity of societies to grow is at the expense of its people and environment. what should we do? what can we do?

[gandaav3]

If its Hoover dam its engineering marvel..if it is three gorges dam its environmental disaster.

[PlanckLimit]

Accurately comparing the two damns on environmental impact alone can not be done. Both are in completely different geologic regions with widely varying surrounding topography, not to mention the major difference in population density and concentration along the rivers.

If you're attempting to show disparities and bias in western news media about China and its developments, which I'm not denying exist, find a better example and take it elsewhere.

[ODYSSEUSXYZ]

thanks good doc

[gbm322]

Pathetic! TGD reduces CO2 emissions enormously relative to fossil fuels based el.!

[blackxavior]

If you stop throwing garbage in the river you will not have to worry about the water purity no matter how slow it flows!

[lesmcluffalot]

MondayDay: A mix of sun and cloud. 60 percent chance of showers early in the morning with the risk of a thunderstorm. High 27. UV index 8 or very high.

Night: Clearing. Low 15.

[maliniaust]

interesting documentary

love asian docu.s