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Millions of won-wons will be lost if we nuke Three Gorges
Most will remember the
controversy during Vietnam about bombing North Vietnam's dike
system. Would have caused a complete collapse of the North's
ability to grow rice, and lead to starvation and capitulation.
Needless to say, we did not. Worse, we announced that we would
not. Fast forward.
I watched the most fascinating (2 hour long, I think) documentary
on Planet Green last
night, about building the Three Gorges Dam. Yes, I know, this
Discovery Channel offshoot is devoted to selling every crackpot
enviro-wacko plan on earth. It's what Al Gore was prolly thinking
when he started Current
(which I hear is now showing Three's
A Company reruns 24-7). But I digress.
The first thing that struck me was what China was willing to do
in order to treble its industrial output with a super navigable Yangtze
River. 1) Bury under water forever 5000 years of Chinese culture
and artifacts; 2) Displace millions of their poorest people who
absolutely did not want to leave. Our government won't even let
us drill for oil. But, this is the fun part, and what I wanted to
tell you.
The narrator noted that if the mile-long dam should collapse, it would
kill millions, and send the Chinese economy back to the stone age
(where it was before Clinton became president). Ahem. Hu
ought be bowing
to whom?
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