On Dams and Failure (opens in new tab)

Ethiopia says the dam is their last best hope to banish poverty. I was planning to call bullshit. If that’s not a great story, what is? t was an excellent lead, and I fucked it up. A few years ago, I went to Ethiopia to see a dam, and right away, I was refused permission to see it. And yet, I was seeing it everywhere. You couldn’t watch TV without seeing it. You couldn’t walk five blocks without seeing […] The post On Dams and Failure appeared first on Terrain.org.