You can't let trees get in the way

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Drone shots show scale of Amazon deforestation for COP30 road. Will the construction of this road will lead to more deforestation in the future, now that the area is more accessible for businesses?

Chances are that one day someone will say: "We need this area to build a gas station, or to build a warehouse." Then what?
A supposedly protected Rain Forest. You can't let a protection order get in the way of making a fast buck.

Back in the 19th century, the UK had what became known as "Railway Fever." We don't have anything like The Amazon of course, but we have centuries old picturesque places like The New Forest. The money men simply rode roughshod over protesters and the one line that they built soon became four. Such will be The Amazon's fate.
 

well the dinosaurs crashed through the jungles long before we were around and then we come along and do what the dinos did " crash through the jungles - some might say it is all part of Gods plan and he will not allow the earth to perish ? - sounds hopeful?
 
Horseless Carriage, you forgot to mention that they will probably need to build an airport to cater for all the private jets.
When the COP was held in Glasgow, many delegates arrived by private jet at Glasgow airport, and after they arrived, the jets were flown to Prestwick, south of Glasgow where they were 'parked' until they were needed.
 
It’s heartbreaking to see this happening.

When I was a kid they were building Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway through my town and county. Several homes were taken by eminent domain and demolished, but they also cut through an old forest cutting down hundreds of huge trees that had stood for centuries.

The forest was home to wildlife with new baby deer arriving every year. One couldn’t count the number of bird nests up in the cool leafy canopy. Chipmunks and squirrels were everywhere, going nuts over the thousands of acorns. These were massive trees.

A couple of years later the highway had to be widened, and more trees were felled. A couple years later they erected giant concrete sound barriers and that project wiped out the rest of the trees. There were none left standing, not one.

When my neighbor wanted to plant a Japanese maple in his front yard last year he had to get a $50+ permit from the town shade commission.
 
MaddHollander said:
It’s heartbreaking to see this happening.

When I was a kid they were building Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway through my town and county. Several homes were taken by eminent domain and demolished, but they also cut through an old forest cutting down hundreds of huge trees that had stood for centuries.

The forest was home to wildlife with new baby deer arriving every year. One couldn’t count the number of bird nests up in the cool leafy canopy. Chipmunks and squirrels were everywhere, going nuts over the thousands of acorns. These were massive trees.

A couple of years later the highway had to be widened, and more trees were felled. A couple years later they erected giant concrete sound barriers and that project wiped out the rest of the trees. There were none left standing, not one.

When my neighbor wanted to plant a Japanese maple in his front yard last year he had to get a $50+ permit from the town shade commission.
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2 or 3 years ago, they chopped down 30 acres of the extensive woodlandand farmland behind my house to build houses...

For the last 3 decades I have a tree planted by the council outside of my house on the eedge of the kerb which is so vast the branches reach right across my garden in summer ad almost touch my windows. It's roots had broken the pavement up to the point where people couln't walk over it... eventually after many coplaints they came and re-tarmaced the pavemnt.. did nothing to the tree..

last year I complained for the umpteenth time so loudly about the branches that they sent trees surgeons out to trim the branches back...

Then I asked i I could get permission to drop the kerb to allow me to park on my property.. and they said '' we're not in the business of chopping trees down''... oh really..tell that to the 10,000 trees you chopped down behind my house which were doing no harm to anyone..
 

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