The water is rising fast. So is China. The dam barely satisfies the insatiable appetite for energy and water. To clear the site for the construction, the government urged people to "sacrifice their small families for the good of the big family." Should the 1.2 million displaced people be counted as part of the big family? Should the mountains and rivers be counted? And the sturgeon, the white dolphin, and other species extinct or going extinct?
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