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Book of the Month: July
Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (2023)
Ben Goldfarb
Forty million miles of roads slash through Earth’s landscape. By 2050, an estimated 25 million more will be built globally in what some ecologists have dubbed a “concrete tsunami.”
Human lives have revolved around roads for thousands of years. They are ubiquitous to the point of mundane, fading into the background of our perception. But what is a road to our nonhuman neighbors? From insects to frogs to grizzly bears, roads can be an insurmountable challenge, disrupting migration patterns, isolating members of a species from its kin, and more.
In Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, award-winning journalist and author Ben Goldfarb travels across the world to ask the question: What happens when we cut up the land for an arterial network that only sustains one species – us?
Why we love it: “Crossings illustrates how humans can be both the perpetrators and the solutionologists of a pervasive problem. We engineered roads for our own use and now, we need to find ways to undo that harm.” — Kristi Marciano, Manager of Marketing & Communications
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