Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet [Paperback]

Grand Prize Winner of the 2024 Banff Mountain Book Competition Wide-ranging and absorbing&Brilliant. Fascinating and compassionate. [A] swift and winding ride. Vivid [and] engaging. Perceptive.& Goldfarb charts a path toward a less destructive future. Beyond the staggering data and the constructive ideas, A badly needed corrective.& [D]eserves to make the reading lists of policymakers around the world. Deeply researched and compelling.& [O]ffers readers a look behind the scenes of a rich but underappreciated field of study that has the potential to affect our everyday lives. Engrossing.& Goldfarb invites us to contemplate a future of roads that could be much brighter, if we would just adopt an ethic, he says, in which roads embrace the land instead of conquer it. Delves into the burgeoning field of road ecology and introduces the impassioned, sometimes eccentric scientists who invite us to perceive our roads as animals do to better understand the ecological impacts. Goldfarbs absorbing, highly intelligent book gently shakes us awake from our ethical torpor and helps us confront the conservation problem we perpetrate each time we get behind the wheel, accept a package, or use public transportation. An elegant?at times startling?account of how our built environment has become an environmental crisis.& A manifesto against unnecessary death. The book is teeming with horrifying statistics.& While that may sound bleak, Chronicles the enormous ecological damage caused by roadbuilding.& Goldfarb guides the reader through an array of often heartbreaking stories. [ Goldfarb traveled across the country, and the globe, to learn more about how roads have shaped not just our communities but the natural world around us.& [R]oads may be nearly invisible to the modern human, just another necessary part of everyday infrastructure. But to the other species on this planet, roads have fundamentally changed their existence. Through expert interviews, compelling research andlz