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| 28,000 Rivers in China disappeared - Chinese water crisis |
| 2013-04-08 |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #6 At last check, Beijing is planning a post-Three Gorges follow-on dam project that is so huge it may slow down the rotation of the earth. Plus, IIRC only 13% of China's land is arable for agriculture - IFF CHINA'S SCHEMAS FAIL, INSTEAD OF BEING A TECH-SAAVY "GIANT JAPAN" THEY COULD END UP BEING A STARVING, THRISTY "GIANT NORTH KOREA". Wid few or no domestic Babes for their young men to marry, + exclusive of any negative or detrimental effects as per "Peak Oil/Resources" + Sun-focused GWCC. WID NUKES, I might add. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-04-08 19:30 |
| #5 Did a major paper for my BA on environmentalism in the USSR (circa 1972). Much of this kind of problem is really a function of communist/socialist/fascist economics/accounting. It's amazing what seems to be a good idea depending on how you account for the real costs and effects. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-04-08 13:53 |
| #4 The ancient Roman aqueducts were marvels of engineering all too often overcome by people siphoning off a little bit here, a little bit there, till only a little bit arrived at its intended destination. Seems the inspectors hired to insure this stuff didn't happen were all too often bribable. Human nature, who'd thunk? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-04-08 12:37 |
| #3 Poor hydraulic engineering, bad water management, over-irrigation, some desertification - people have this idea that centralized control by a command economy is somehow effective at controlling these sorts of external costs management failures, but all the worst collapses have been under the most rigid of elitist command controls. And Zhang Fei could correct me if I'm mistaken, but I believe this sort of thing is still very much a Party function in China. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2013-04-08 11:25 |
| #2 Penises disappearing in Africa, rivers disappearing in China... I tell you there is some strange juju afoot. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-04-08 11:16 |
| #1 These people do not have the mandate of heaven. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-04-08 10:03 |