Oil and cloud-forests don’t mix
Poor countries need economic development, but, like rich countries before them, increasingly dislike the pollution it brings. Two examples, from Ecuador and Peru
“FOUR birdwatchers and a couple of mayors.” That is how Ecuador's president, Gustavo Noboa, describes environmental opposition to the route of a new $1.1 billion oil pipeline. The pipeline, already approved by the government, promises to double Ecuador's oil-transport capacity and boost GDP growth by 2.5% a year until 2020. Unfortunately, it will also slice through one of the world's few cloud-forests still intact.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Oil and cloud-forests don’t mix”
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