2007年11月19日星期一

Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs

From NY Times:
JIANMIN VILLAGE, China — Last year, Chinese officials celebrated the completion of the Three Gorges Dam by releasing a list of 10 world records. As in: The Three Gorges is the world’s biggest dam, biggest power plant and biggest consumer of dirt, stone, concrete and steel. Ever. Even the project’s official tally of 1.13 million displaced people made the list as record No. 10.

Each time, when my friend Ximena talked about the injustice suffered by the displaced people in her home country Columbia, I felt like listening to a story. Only today, I am realized the same story happend in China, in a much larger scale and influening the lives of million people. What can we do to help?

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