"Villages were burned so the people could not return."

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"...the world that is satisfying to us is the same world that is utterly devastating to them"

I've just returned from a relaxing evening in Siavonga. Dr. Tim invited me to go along with two other volunteers and two kids from the program. It was my first real excursion outside of Lusaka, the first time I saw the adobe and grass huts of rural Zambia. It was a cool 24-hour trip.

We spent a very relaxing evening watching the sunset, having a couple of drinks, debating which cluster of stars was the southern cross. After a couple hours at the resort I learned that Lake Kariba is actually a man-made lake, the largest in the world at the time of its creation in 1950s.

Please read the first paragraph of each of these links:
http://www.eaglesrestresort.com/
http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/africa/kariba-dam-zambia-zimbabwe
http://www.panos.org.uk/?lid=13656

The quote in the title is from the international rivers site. The devastating quote is from Pathologies of Power- Farmer quoting Robert McAfee Brown paraphrasing the Uruguayan Jesuit Juan Luis Segundo. Farmer has a lot to say about dams as part of development projects.