Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Good
morning to all ye global citizens! Goodwill and peace to you!
For
this day I chose to peregrinate on the 3-Gorges Dam of China
I
just arrived from overseas assignment in 2002 when I had the opportunity to discuss
the 3-Gorges dam in my social science classes in Manila
Being
one who has been involved in the planning works on ambitious development
projects (e.g. industrial estate/free trade zone, economic support projects for
marginal sectors worth hundreds of millions of dollars) as a practitioner, I
was truly appreciative of the efforts of China’s state to tame the Yangtze and
tap its power-packed waters for electrification, irrigation, and subsidiary
purposes. Though environmentally-driven myself, I am not wont to deliver
satirical and destructive remarks about such a project as the 3-Gorges Dam that
can benefit a greater section of China’s population and economy.
There
are always negative trade-offs to any big endeavor, such as the displacement of
1.4 million folks along the reservoir area of the dam. What project of such a
stature in the world doesn’t have a downside to it anyway? The downsides are
the ones highlighted the most by paid hacksters of the West’s financier
oligarchs, notably the political greenies whose obsessive-compulsive reflexes
are unmatched anywhere in the world.
The
USA America America
As
one can see, the Hoover Dam stood the test of time, and it remains as one of
the marvels of America America
Understandably,
the West’s financiers can not benefit directly from projects initiated by
China’s government, even as it is now too late for destructive Western forces to
take down China’s economy through massive looting of the financial markets the
way they’ve done to their own domestic economies in the EU and USA. So they
employ those civil society groups that receive funds from the financiers’
‘corporate social responsibility’ coffers, with the expectation that the
activist funds recipients would drum up the destructive impacts of projects
they cannot control such as the 3-Gorges Dam.
In
the event of heavy rainfalls however, there is reason to keep watch over the
waters’ possible exceeding the 175-meter limit of the dam’s reservoir. As shown
by our own precedents in the Philippines
With
decades of hydraulics experience behind our local experts here, this much I can
say: so far so good! True, there were casualties who suffered from the
inundations caused by the contingency releases of the rising floodwaters. But
no single dam ever burst catastrophically yet, a catastrophe that could have
resulted to higher casualties of at least a couple of millions of folks.
It’s
now the start of the ‘ember’ months, and so far we are witness to the 3-Gorges
Dam standing tall. So far so good! There are still three (3) more months to
hurdle before the storms will bring heavy rainfalls, but so far the indications
are the dam administrators can manage the hydraulic flows efficaciously.
If
there is any message I can deliver to the eco-fascist blabbermouths, they
should spread themselves across the world’s continents and plant trees in the
de-forested boondocks. This behavior would be truly exemplary, as it will show
that sociopathic groups and persons can also exhibit productive behavior during
times of crisis.
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