We came to a wide bend in the river, a stretch of good, flat growing land with broad poppy fields.
Russia needs Western technology to develop energy deposits in the Arctic, and it profits from the growing land transport between Europe and China.
More will follow: thanks to legal protection from the EU and to growing land abandonment, wolves are spreading through western Europe.
"You see wars getting fought over oil and gas, but at the end of the day, if a country is hungry... Look, populations are growing, land is shrinking.
"I mean, it was going to eat up huge amounts of the best growing land in Texas, go right through habitats and over aquifers, encourage more rubber-tire travel, foster urban sprawl and make our air quality even worse.
Due to its proximity to Nairobi, the human population pressure has resulted in a continuous influx of people, growing land use changes, and fragmentation of lands.
Urban land cover is the fastest growing land-use form globally and there is concern that urbanisation will negatively impact native biodiversity.
Cultural norms for landscape appearance may affect preferences for and adoption of ecological design in exurban residential landscapes, a rapidly growing land use that covers a larger area than all other urban land uses in America combined.
Eyewitnesses describe Nairobi's school tear-gassing and Africa's growing land grab problem.
Concern has also been raised by vintners that the proposed site is on prime growing land that should be used for wine production rather than a resort hotel.
