this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
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The environmental impacts of this dam were immense, as were just the like impacts on real people. Millions of people were moved to newly built cities or existing cities because their homes were flooded. Entire cities were dismantled. It was an absolutely massive project that unequivocally made the lives of millions worse (at least in the short term and watching their homes be flooded intentionally). Granted taming the Yellow River is a massive feat, and the power this thing generates is insane, but there are plenty of legitimate critiques to be made.
This is what actual good-faith criticism of socialist projects looks like, as opposed to liberals' "communism no iphone 100 billion dead."
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Hydro in general might be clean but it is so environmentally destructive :(
you have to weigh the destruction it causes in the short term to the preservation it contributes to in the long term
Even in the long term, it (1) breaks the river into pieces, preventing fish moving up and down, (2) causes silting of the reservoir and lack of silt deposition downstream, and (3) can stress the underlying rock, which is not a great idea in earthquake-proe areas (like northeast China).