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The concrete isle
Mark Lynas, the Guardian (UK)
Ireland has become rich. It has also surrendered itself to motorways,
shopping malls, and urban sprawl, stripping peat bogs, demolishing monuments
along the way. Mark Lynas reports on one of the world's worst polluters
also posted at Energy Bulleting http://energybulletin.net/3472.html
Traffic, Cars and Peak Oil
Indymedia (Ireland)
"Building a motorway which would be designed for handling 50,000+
cars a day is a complete waste of time. We will be destroying our heritage for
nothing. It is worth noting that the scheduled completion date for the new
motorway by the NRA is around 2010. From the graph and of course the latest
date for peak oil (2005) from ASPO, we will already be on our way down in our
usage of oil and cars and the steep decline in place continues after that
time."
also posted at http://energybulletin.net/3328.html
Endangered Species Act listing
crisis I-69 - a NAFTA Superhighway - debate continues The loss of a large cat species for a
ROAD??
A new report to the European parliament warns that the Iberian lynx, now down to
an estimated 135 cats and only 28 breeding females, is ìon the verge of
extinctionî says The Guardian (UK) in its April 26 edition. The
population has plunged from thousands four decades ago and ìthe remaining
animals are widely separated and there may be only one viable population left:
in the Sierra Morena in southern Spain.î And, that population is
threatened by a new highway. The report concludes that ìthe first
extinction of a big cat species since prehistoric times would be an
embarrassment to the European Union.î Related discussion:
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