From the Los Angeles Times: “Ge Quanxiao is no revolutionary. The 58-year-old farmer is an upstanding member of his community, a father of two. But if you push reasonable people too far, he warns, they’re forced to do desperate things.
The government in Beijing is pushing a lot of reasonable people to the wall these days, especially here in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, where three parallel rivers course their way to the sea. Ravenous for energy to feed a booming economy, China plans to build more than 100 dams in this area, including a couple of dozen that would surpass Washington state’s 550-foot-high Grand Coulee dam and one that would be the tallest in the world. ”
