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		digi_owl on Jan 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: China has built the world’s largest bullet-train n... Huge, and authoritarian. They move whole cities worth of people when it comes time to build a hydroelectric dam, by force if need be. The west in comparison gets bogged down in NIMBYism and haggling over land value pr CM of track/road. Never mind multiple rounds in court if one of the would be contractors can find any reason to claim the government was biased...

sjg007 on Jan 16, 2017 | [–]

the USA moved towns to dam rivers too.

jerf on Jan 16, 2017 | | [–]

And the UK used to do things too. Your past tense is correct.

Whether this is a good or bad thing, well, see debates in other comments.

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