What’s so bad about a road?
Roads are forest killers.
"A road means access. Once roads are bulldozed into rainforests, illegal loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers arrive. Once they get access, they can destroy forests, harm native ecosystems and even drive out or kill indigenous peoples. This looting of the natural world robs cash-strapped nations of valuable natural resources."
@Bellingen "these roads can be actively encouraged by aggressive infrastructure-expansion schemes — most notably China’s Belt and Road Initiative, now active in more than 150 nations."
I never considered the full implications of China's Belt and Road Initiative, but it's clearly going to cause a lot of harm, including non-obvious effects like this logging. I shouldn't be surprised that roads are harmful, but I guess they're a harm that keeps on harming.
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