The sun was high above white-crowned Jade Dragon Snow Mountain when my guide pointed down the gorge at the brown waters churning thousands of feet below. “That’s where they will build the dam,” Xiao Chun, a 17-year-old Naxi, one of Yunnan’s 22 ethnic minorities, said.
玉龙雪山白雪皑皑，晴空万里。我的导游小春是一个17岁纳西族少年。纳西族是云南22个少数民族之一。他手指数千英尺下翻滚的棕色江水峡谷对我说：“那里就要建水坝了，这对我们非常不好。会有很多污染。我希望这不会发生。”