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In this Guardian "Long Read", natural-history writer Patrick Barkham travels along the massive construction site for the HS2 high-speed track between London and Birmingham.
The sheer scale of this project is hard to grasp --- I followed Barkham's account on satellite map images, and you can see the track site even when fully zoomed out, a yellow-brown scar cutting through England.
Barkham talks to affected residents, managers, campaigners. We see ruthlessness, we see unimaginable waste, we also see exemplary practices and occasional generosity. A nuanced, thoughtful piece that helps us make the connection between a mega-scale project and its impact on a local level. Very much worth reading.
And good photographs too, by The Guardian's Gill Mead.
#HS2 #UKTranport #Rail #MegaProjects #PatrickBarkham #JillMead
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The flying insect population in the United Kingdom has evidently dropped off by 64% since 2004: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/flying-insect-numbers-plunge-64-since-2004-uk-survey-finds
#patrickbarkham #insects #guardian #theguardian #populationcollapse #catastrphicdieoff #uk #unitedkingdomofgreatbritainandnorthernireland #unitedkingdom