The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest hydroelectric dam and also the world’s largest electricity-generating plant of any kind. In addition to generating more energy than the combined total of 15 nuclear power plants, the Three Gorges Dam was designed to moderate the annual flooding that has plagued the Yangtze River. But scientists are already calling the whole project a unprecedented environmental disaster. The project costs have now exceeded 30 billion dollars. Over two million Chinese peasants were displaced by the construction, this documentary tells their story.
Supersize Earth: A Place To Live
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Supersized Earth takes a look at the story of how humans have managed to transform our world in just a single generation. Dallas Campbell travels around the planet, visiting the world's largest and most ambitious engi...
Megastructures: Alberta’s Oil Sands Mine
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The scale of the Canada's Oil Sands Mines in the province of Alberta is simply astounding. This documentary explores the technology that makes extraction from the Oil Sands possible.
1421: The Year China Discovered America?
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Despite not knowing a word of Chinese and having absolutely no money, David Choe and Harry Kim decided to hitchhike clear across China.
Transmission 6-10: Human Rights Violations In China
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Breaking the silence on China's secret Genocide. This is a pirate broadcast sent out to inform others about the atrocities taking place in China today that no-body knows about, except those who could make a differ...
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This short documentary tells the story of the New South China Mall, which is the world's largest shopping mall (twice the size of America's largest mall - The Mall of America in Minnesota). Unfortunately, it was b...
Mao’s Bloody Cultural Revolution Revealed
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Megastructures: The Burj Al-Arab
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A look at the construction of the world’s tallest hotel, the Burj Al-Arab off the coast of Dubai. Rising 321 metres from an artificial island in the Arabian Gulf, this sail-like structure boasts numerous technical inn...
Very informative and thought-provoking! Thank you!
Now with the Great Wall Across the Yangtze a reality, I just wish that the “legacy” of problems wouldn’t occur.
Please don’t play with Mother Nature any more. No plitical ambition or personal desire matters so much to us as Nature does!
Please respect Mother Nature!
The music at the end of this video. Is it a Zhou Long composition? The vocals are just beautiful. Does anyone know where the sound track can be purchased (Australia). Many thanks.
Great video
The World Bank estimates that forcible “development-induced displacement and resettlement” now affects 10 million people per year. According to the World Bank an estimated 33 million people have been displaced by development projects such as dams, urban development and irrigation canals in India alone.
India is well ahead in this respect. A country with as many as over 3600 large dams within its belt can never be the exceptional case regarding displacement. The number of development induced displacement is higher than the conflict induced displacement in India. According to Bogumil Terminski an estimated more than 10 million people have been displaced by development each year.
Athough the exact number of development-induced displaced people (DIDPs) is difficult to know, estimates are that in the last decade 90–100 million people have been displaced by urban, irrigation and power projects alone, with the number of people displaced by urban development becoming greater than those displaced by large infrastructure projects (such as dams). DIDPs outnumber refugees, with the added problem that their plight is often more concealed.
This is what experts have termed “development-induced displacement.” According to Michael Cernea, a World Bank analyst, the causes of development-induced displacement include water supply (dams, reservoirs, irrigation); urban infrastructure; transportation (roads, highways, canals); energy (mining, power plants, oil exploration and extraction, pipelines); agricultural expansion; parks and forest reserves; and population redistribution schemes.