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| Construction of Three Gorges Dam in China. Source: Blake Campbell-Hyde. |
By Gundhramns Hammer
February 8, 2015
In the last
60 years, China has constructed more than 86,000
dams, according to a recent International Rivers´ Report (2014). This is a
lot of damn dams!
As expected, there is a high price to pay for all of this messing and fucking around with Nature´s designs.
Because of this massive man-made clogging of the rivers, 23 million people have been uprooted from their homes and 8 million of these are still living in poverty. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Socially and culturally, people tend to flow like rivers.
So the displacement of millions of people has clogged up this flow, producing all sorts of problems: Social conflict, quarrels, destruction of local cultures, poor management, corruption, messed up livelihoods, etc.
The social cost due to this dam construction craziness has been too high. It has been as if someone poked into a peaceful anthill.
But there are other serious problems caused by man´s interference on Mother Nature´s rivers.
The hundreds of dams that have been constructed along the Yangtze River Basin have created chaos in the environment.
As a result, “the fish ecosystem is on the verge of collapse” (International Rivers, 2014).
The environmental costs are too damn high. Hydropower is not green at all.
How about economics?
China has to deal with the construction costs for these dams. And since money does not grown on trees, this means going to the international banks for loans.
For example, the construction of Xiangjiaba Dam alone cost US$5.43 billion.
Sooner or later, these international debts always fall on people´s backs.
In a nutshell, the cost of hydropowering the Red Dragon´s fire is way too much.
Where is the proverbial "Chinese wisdom"?
For more information, please read the following report by International Rivers (2014):
As expected, there is a high price to pay for all of this messing and fucking around with Nature´s designs.
Because of this massive man-made clogging of the rivers, 23 million people have been uprooted from their homes and 8 million of these are still living in poverty. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Socially and culturally, people tend to flow like rivers.
So the displacement of millions of people has clogged up this flow, producing all sorts of problems: Social conflict, quarrels, destruction of local cultures, poor management, corruption, messed up livelihoods, etc.
The social cost due to this dam construction craziness has been too high. It has been as if someone poked into a peaceful anthill.
But there are other serious problems caused by man´s interference on Mother Nature´s rivers.
The hundreds of dams that have been constructed along the Yangtze River Basin have created chaos in the environment.
As a result, “the fish ecosystem is on the verge of collapse” (International Rivers, 2014).
The environmental costs are too damn high. Hydropower is not green at all.
How about economics?
China has to deal with the construction costs for these dams. And since money does not grown on trees, this means going to the international banks for loans.
For example, the construction of Xiangjiaba Dam alone cost US$5.43 billion.
Sooner or later, these international debts always fall on people´s backs.
In a nutshell, the cost of hydropowering the Red Dragon´s fire is way too much.
Where is the proverbial "Chinese wisdom"?
For more information, please read the following report by International Rivers (2014):
THE TRUE COST OF HYDROPOWER IN CHINA [水电的真实成本]
Everybody is power hungry
The dragon is up and quite hungry for power. So are people in China and around the world who have an insatiable hunger for all sorts of electronic contraptions which require power.
And this fever for power has a price.
Everybody is power hungry
The dragon is up and quite hungry for power. So are people in China and around the world who have an insatiable hunger for all sorts of electronic contraptions which require power.
And this fever for power has a price.
The ecological footprint of our digital technology
Mon Capitaine, all of this means that any "made in China" electronic gadgets bought at the stores have a large ecological footprint.
Oui, mon ami! But not just Chinese e-gadgets. All e-gadgets do.
Digital technology has a "monster footprint", mon ami.
Mon Capitaine, at least Pleistocene man´s shit was totally biodegradable but modern man´s isn´t at all.
Oui, mon ami. Ours is not.
That is one of our major problems. And it is getting worse with each passing day.
Fuck!
See you later alligators!
Oui, mon ami! But not just Chinese e-gadgets. All e-gadgets do.
Digital technology has a "monster footprint", mon ami.
Mon Capitaine, at least Pleistocene man´s shit was totally biodegradable but modern man´s isn´t at all.
Oui, mon ami. Ours is not.
That is one of our major problems. And it is getting worse with each passing day.
Fuck!
See you later alligators!
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| Source: Jessica´s Health Blog. |
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