The River Dragon Has Come!: Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (680 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0765602067 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 270 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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"great book" according to Keith OH/MI. I heard that this book was good and very controversial but I found it to be a little boring. I started it great book I heard that this book was good and very controversial but I found it to be a little boring. I started it 3 years ago and put it down and still have not picked it up again to finish it.. years ago and put it down and still have not picked it up again to finish it.. It damns the dam with precise and powerful arguments. John Glines This is a collection of essays which document the many reasons the Three Gorges Dam should not be built, the lose of arable land, the dislocation of millions of people, the loss of 5,000 years of art and architecture, etc. Author Dai Qing, an outspoken opponent of the dam s
The main concerns are population resettlement and human rights, the irreversible environmental and economic impact, the loss of cultural antiquities and historical sites, military considerations, and hidden dam disasters from the past. This book is an effort to prevent history from repeating itself ten-fold (a reference to the great floods in 1975 during which over 60 dams collapsed and at least 100,000 people lost their lives) if the 39 billion cubic metres of water in the Three Gorges reservoir ever escapes by natural or man-made catastrophes. In the ongoing courageous struggle of a relatively small group of Chinese to prevent the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China, Dai Qing is the outspoken leader whose eloquent voice is always heard despite threats and intimidation by the Chinese authorities to silence it. Opponents of the dam are attempting to kill the project or at least reduce the size of the megadam now planned to be the biggest, most expensive and, incidentally, the most hazardous of all hydro-electric projects on this planet.. Dai Qing, an investigative journalist and author with a wide audience in China and abroad, compiled this book of essays and field reports assessing the impact of the Three Gorges megadam now under construction at Sandouping in China
Environmental groups and international political activists would be the primary audience for this rather expensive collection of essays. From Library Journal Trained as a scientist before becoming an investigative journalist, Dai was imprisoned for criticizing the Chinese government's endorsement of the construction of the Three Gorges Dam?potentially the world's biggest hydroelectric project. Now at Harvard, she has compiled 15 essays to illustrate why the project would be an unqualified disaster in terms of "population resettlement and human rights, the irreversible environmental and economic impacts,