I’m booked pretty solid today, but fortunately Christina Larson has just puplished a new article in her series on Chinese environmentalists. You can find it at the wonderful Yale Environment 360 site. Here’s the teaser:
Geologist Yong Yang has serious concerns about plans for a massive Yangtze River diversion project. When he went public with them, he found out how difficult it can be to challenge a government decision in China.
Go check it out.
Map: Coutesy New York Times
2 responses so far ↓
1 Greg // Jan 12, 2009 at 11:19 am
Would another potential problem with the diversion be clogging of the channels by the large volume of silt that is in the Yangtze? What will the impact be on farming and agriculture along the Yangtze river basin with up to 1/3 of the water diverted away?
2 cmcelwee // Jan 13, 2009 at 3:06 pm
The whole project is insane.
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