styxfanNH wrote:China spent the last 10 years or so building Three Rivers Dam. IT produces 1/9th of the electrical needs of the country. Of course, they displaced a bunch of their people and burried centuries of history. But that is what happened in providing for the countries' future. That will never happen here. Not with NIMBY principle strongly in effect.
Yeah it really is too bad that our government can't just go up to 1.5 million people and tell them to "get the fuck out".
