Multiple Choice
China's plan for the Three Gorges Dam is expected to
A) Increase damage from the frequent flooding of the Yangtze River.
B) Provide as much as 10 percent of China's energy needs through hydroelectric power generation, thus reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and particulate pollution from fossil fuel use.
C) Inundate a trivial amount of farmland, because it is sited in a narrow gorge walled with granite bedrock.
D) Have minimal effect on indigenous species in the river, because of the history of river contamination that has decimated the river ecology already.
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