(I'm posting this from an email Gary sent me - he's registered now)

I have been surfing this website for about a year.I live in Vermont and am an average joe with no schooling,work for myself as a swimming pool serviceman,and with an interest about earthquakes,volcanoes,and climate change. I was wondering if anyone could comment on this excerpt I found on the web. (Unless mankind returns to being a God fearing species, and non despotic in nature history has proven it is only going repeat itself. There is one cataclysmic event that is poised to destroy most of the human race if mankind does not take note and begin making some serious adjustments in its social interrelationships and make amends with nature. In the late 40’s and early 50’s, there was an enormous amount of flooding in America. The flooding prompted the U.S. government to direct the Army Core of Engineers to construct levies in the troublesome flooding areas. Because of neglect, and mismanaged funding over time, those responsible for maintaining the levies let many lapse into disrepair. A crucial New Orleans levy collapsed during hurricane Katrina because of neglect. However, of all the manmade projects on Earth, the levies were the only project that had an effect on the Earth. The Earth’s rotation slowed one tenth of a second per year as a result of the levies.

In 2007, the world’s largest Three Gorge Dam was completed in China, with the exception of the installation of some 37 generators. The last of the generators are expected to be installed by 2010. The Chinese dam is five times the size of the Nevada Hoover Dam and is already causing ecological disastrous effects in and around the dam: Earth trimmers, landslides, increase in rainfall, displacement of millions of people, the end of an endangered species of dolphins, and an increase in rat infestation to name just a few of the problems.

It is how it is affecting other parts of the world that is of concern. The dam sits squarely on one of the world’s larges fault lines and the world’s largest tectonic plate. Since its completion, the immediate area of the dam has been experiencing an increase in earth trimmers. In America the Yellowstone Caldera, the largest known underground volcano, has been rising 3 inches a year since the dam’s completion. Earth trimmers have also been on an increase in an already seismic active state of California. The neighboring state of Nevada, known for its five volcanoes, has been recording a disproportionate number of earth trimmers since the filling of the dam. When the generators are fully installed and the dam is fully functional it will make the American Army Corp of Engineers levy project look like the freckle on the rump of an elephant.

It is expected the weight of the water being held back by the Three Gorge Dam will be enough to cause the underlying tectonic plate to begin sliding, causing adjoining plates to follow suit setting off the Yellowstone Caldera. This is no small matter. The down wind of the Caldera will make islands out of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming. Most of the Northern states of America, including the Midwestern states of Kansas, most of Okalahoma and the neighboring states stretching to the Eastern seaboard will be chocked out from the eruption. Most of the Canadian Southern regions will have corresponding results as the Northern portion of the United States.)