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AMERICAblog: Danger of collapse at 69 dams in China

  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Priorities, priorities.

    A few collapsed dams should help the whitewater rafting competition during this year's olympics.

    BTW: Haven't heard much about the Iraqi dam poised for collapse lately:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7069109.stm
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    That's a big issue and relates to similar issues here in the States and probably around the world. Dams, bridges, highways, overpasses, infrastructure of all kinds. We live in a post-production world where the constructs of yesteryear are fading away. "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" a medieval French poet lamented. "Where are the dams and bridges of the mid-twentieth century?" we can soon lament.
  • queerunity · 1 year ago
    China the big human and animal rights abuser prob doesnt care
    http://www.queersunited.blogspot.com
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    True enough.

    Look at what Bush did to New Orleans and we, generally, value life.

    In China, it's just a few less mouths to feed.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Um, come to think of it.

    Bush is exactly like the Chinese.

    1,000 killed and he treats it like a political issue to gloss over.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    money is the root of all environmental evil
  • tbhull · 1 year ago
    What is it exactly that increases the chance of an earthquake? The increased pressure on the surface created by the water in the newly formed lake above? Something else? How far was the China epoicenter from the Three Gorges dam?
  • MorgaineSwann · 1 year ago
    The flip side of this problem is occurring all over Appalachia, where they are flattening mountains for development or coal removal. You just can't shift massive amounts of rock or water and expect it not to affect the pressure on the tectonic plates. Underwater drilling isn't helping anything either - there was a theory that that's what caused that huge tsunami. There is a pattern of extreme instability within the earth that no one is talking about. Volcanos that have been dormant for thousands of years are becoming active, they're having earthquakes in places they never have before - like in the middle of a plate instead of just at the faults - and sinkholes are opening up all over the place and swallowing buildings and anything else around them.

    We really need to make people stop building artificial lakes, damming up rivers and knocking down mountains until scientists figure out what is going on.