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Article: Dam shame.(The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- E Magazine
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- May 1, 2008
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Environmentalists around the world tried to stop the Three Gorges Dam in China, which displaced 1.3 million people and, according to International Rivers, had "profound" ecological effects. The protests might have slowed dam construction, but it was built in the end and has been in place since 2003. Bruce Barcot's very readable The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw (Random House, $26) tells a familiar story, this time set in Belize. Government officials there wanted a dam, too, and the fact that it ...