Chinese three gorges dam project - 9 December 2007

The government will have to face facts. The economic growth to which the people have become accustomed, will have to decline in order for extremely serious issues regarding pollution of the river, build-up of silt behind the dam, disappearance of wetlands fish and wildlife to be resolved for the future "greater public good".

Building a damn that big is just ridiculous. everything points to ridiculousness. you say it might save lives having all that electricity or water blah blah fucking blah, i say, it was never there and was never going to be there to begin with so there would have been no loss had it gone ahead meaning its pure greed than created such a thing and now it is there there is going to be a loss if such a thing fails. there. argument is impossible to interject. unless your a child and say "im an idiot"

It's called appropiation. Last time I checked every country in the world uses this practice in order to further the greater public good.

It's not news people that get appropriated are going to complain. Thanks for the idealistic propaganda, idiot.

This was a waste of news. Who cares about what the Chinese government is doing beside the people that hate China. China doesn't have soliders anywhere in the world killing people. I the U.S. want to talk about human rights just mention black americans.

Watch 'Up The Yangtze'.. really good movie about how the three gorges dam affects families in China .

Welcome to China's justice system. Chinese gov. are heartless and no respect for humanity. Hu and Wen should be charge with crime against humanity

No pain, no gain.

it's also done, let's look into the future. No matter what, future and human lives saved downstream are more important.

Unfortunately, the millions of people that died from floodings, year after year do not have their voice heard, and the tens of millions that was displaced by the flood can not settle down without fear of loosing their properties and lives afraid of the recurrent floods. The few that have short sightedness should know that they are , not only selfish and shortsighted, but also lack of common sense of knowledge, of the history and the future generations, their own children, grandchildren and more.

Not only that but what if that fuckin thing breaks down. The Chinese government knows that area is Earthquake prone yet they spent 40 Billion dollars on it anyway for benefits in the future, yet destroyed billions of dollars of housing and ancient sites. I just hope that China will benifit for a long time from this monster.