China is Gorges
Before the Flood: Photographs by Edward Burtynsky at the Charles Cowles Gallery in New York has some amazing images of village life where everyone is demolition every structure in site. China’s Three Gorges Dam Project on the Yangzi river will create a dam one and a half miles wide, 575 feet high and a reservoir nearly 400 miles long. The hydroelectricity from the dam will be equal to 18 nuclear plants. 1,300 archeological sites will be flooded and more than 1 million people must be relocated.
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