China Learns The Limits To Play God…
Mao…
“Walls of stone will stand upstream to the west
To hold back Wushan’s clouds and rain
Till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges.
The mountain goddess, if she is still there,
Will marvel at a world so changed.”
“Chinese officials and experts have admitted the Three Gorges Dam project has caused an array of ecological ills, including more frequent landslides and pollution, and if preventive measures are not taken, there could be an environmental ‘catastrophe’.”
A few other Chinese attempts at playing God are even more outlandish. One that was actively considered by China at one time (but mercifully appears to have been abandoned) was a project to blast a tunnel through the Himalayas using nuclear weapons.
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