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How successful is the Three Gorges Dam? Explain your ideas about this topic and defend the positions that you developed while completing the Take a Stand on the Three Gorges Dam worksheet. Be sure to respond to at least two of your classmates' ideas as part of the discussion.

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As a work of modern mega construction and engineering, the dam will surely go down in history as one of the great. That is a huge success.

As a source of energy, the dam effectively elevated energy shortage in South-East China and played an important part in China's economic development. That is a huge success.

But the environmental, ecological and geographical impact will be felt for generations to come. It is still too early to tell how much damage it has caused.

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