Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.
India probably does similar shit (no pun intended), one of these rural villages had two dozen kids die when they refilled a container with a powerful pesticide with cooking oil and then cooked food for kids with said cooking oil.
IE we lose the 'bread' in 'bread and circuses'. Arguably the circuses too, depending on how many servers go down.
It looks like things are finally stabilizing. Inflow has decreased, water level is backing down again, and outflow remains steady.
That dude in the blue shirt looks like he's trying to develop teleportation to get himself the fuck out of there.
Whether the dam busts or China lets the water out, the people in its ware are fucked either way. And there's no doubt that China's going to suffer both economically and ecologically regardless of what their decision ultimately is.
Full scale, nation-wide uprising? Unlikely. The floods had been hitting many regions of Hubei hard, but China is a large, large country too, and for every peasant affected, there will be hundred more indifferent.
I hope Scotty won't have any technical problems with the teleportation system.
They blew a bunch of upstream dams and flooded thousands of square miles of arable land, numerous towns and villages, and several major cities up and down from the dam. Even if the dam doesn't collapse, they've created a national disaster.
And with all that arable land flooded, historical results of mass flooding, and the ongoing livestock diseases......
How can it be a disaster if chinamen are dying?
