
With Jamais' recent China Update on my mind, I happened to click into these photographs of the Yangtze River valley by Steven Bensen, taken in the months immediately preceeding the final flooding. Each one is a little set piece: modernity meets the ancient and sublime, for good or ill.
just to tie together the last three posts :D
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040324/sc_nm/environment_mekong_dc_1
"PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Chinese dams and a drought have pushed water levels in the mighty Mekong river to record lows, threatening the livelihoods of millions in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, environmentalists said on Wednesday."
cheers!