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Old Ties, New Challenges: Amur River at Risk
From March 2009 World Rivers Review The Amur-Heilong River System, which forms the border of China and Russia for 3,000...
US President says Chinese Communist Party May Not Survive Dam Burst Scandal
No, Obama didn’t just wade into the controversy over whether the disastrous 2008 Sichuan earthquake was triggered by Zipingpu Dam....
Giant Dam May Have Triggered Sichuan Quake
Originally published in The Wall Street Journal BEIJING – Chinese and U.S. scientists are examining the possibility that a giant...
Possible Link Between Dam and China Quake
Originally published in The New York Times BEIJING – Nearly nine months after a devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province, China,...
China Earthquake a Dam-Induced Disaster?
The devastating earthquake in Sichuan, which took at least 69,000 lives in May 2008, may have been unleashed by the...
Chinese Earthquake May Have Been Man-Made, Say Scientists
Originally published in The Telegraph An earthquake that killed at least 80,000 people in Sichuan last year may have been...
Xiaoxi Dam, China
This large dam epitomizes the abuse of carbon offsets and the many flaws in the Kyoto Protocol’s offsetting scheme, the...
International Media Echo Our Criticisms of the CDM
The international media is increasingly echoing our criticism of the Clean Development Mechanism's phony offsets. The Washington Post, the International...
China Dams Reveal Flaws in Climate-Change Weapon
Originally published in multiple news outlets; reporting by the Associated Press XIAOXI, China – The hydroelectric dam, a low wall...
这片土地是你的土地——真的吗？
皮特•西格（Pete Seeger）和布鲁斯•斯普林斯汀（Bruce Springsteen）在林肯纪念碑前演唱“这片土地是你的土地”的一幕，是这周的总统就职典礼上最华彩的一段。我和其他数百万人一样，被这首传统民歌深深地打动了。然而它也再次重复了关于这个国家诞生的谎言。 伍迪•古斯瑞（Woody Guthrie）在1940年写下“这片土地是你的土地”。当时皮特•西格还在和伍迪一起在国内巡回旅行。皮特•西格的父亲曾在加州大学伯克利教音乐。几十年间，皮特•西格一直是美国的良心，代表着进步的声音。我在他的民歌中长大，一直仰慕他强大的文化根基和战斗精神。 伍迪•古斯瑞反复吟咏的主题是“这片土地为你和我而建造。”我一直问自己，这首被驱逐者的圣歌如何能够这样悍然地罔顾这个国家的起源。歌中提到的这片土地，从加利福尼亚到纽约岛，从红木森林到墨西哥湾，当第一批欧洲人到达时，还定居着7百万到1千万土著印第安人。就像詹姆斯•威尔森在他的令人痛苦的书《大地在哭泣》（The Earth Shall Weep）中描述的那样，种族灭绝，疾病和饥饿使印第安人的数量在此后的3个世纪里减少到25万。伍迪•古斯瑞的歌表明，他们不仅从肉体上被消灭了，也被从公众的记忆中抹去了。 伍迪•古斯瑞当然知道这段历史。经常和他一起演出的音乐家格雷格•阿特纳（Greg Artzner）和特瑞•莱欧尼诺（Terry Leonino）告诉我，西格有时会唱下面这段歌词： “这片土地是你的土地， 但是它曾经是我的土地， 直到我把曼哈顿岛卖给了你， 你把我们的族民赶进保留地， 这片土地是你从我这里偷走的土地。” 在林肯纪念碑前，皮特没有演唱这一段歌词。但是作为一个后来的移民，我们不能忘记这些。 从先住民手中抢夺土地并不没有成为历史。随着开矿和建水电项目，如伯尼维尔（Bonneville），格林峡谷（Glen Canyon），沙什塔（Shashta）和克拉曼大坝（...