The land is plowed up and herbicided, destroying natural vegetation and driving out most of its creatures.
In order to avoid causing serious soil and water losses and urban waterlogging, building construction projects should attempt to avoid strongly disturbing, occupying and destroying natural rainfall-flood regulation systems, especially for native forest land.
But harnessing the power of the river comes with concentrated costs, from fragmenting the river system and destroying natural habitat to triggering ecological hazards and displacing at least 40 million people globally (World Commission on Dams 2000).
But harnessing the power of the river comes with concentrated costs, from fragmenting the river system and destroying natural habitat to triggering ecological hazards and displacing millions of people.
When urbanisation is destroying natural beauty on every continent, there is a duty on wealthier societies to protect what has not been destroyed, for all the world one day to enjoy.
Mike Muller seems to imply that destroying natural wetlands in the course of hydropower development is a cost worth bearing because it will reduce methane emissions (Nature 566, 315 317; 2019).
