AbstractTransportation activities have a great impact on the environment
because they fracture natural habitats and create pollution. Roads intrude
into natural habitats, separating ecosystems and permanently altering the landscape.
Road building has undesirable effects on species that require large tracts of
undisturbed land.
The main impact of transportation is due to vehicles’ large consumption
of fossil fuels. This consumes the fossil fuel reserves, as well as releasing
greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. There is a radical difference between
high road density in the settled parts of southern Canada, and virtually no
roads in the Arctic ecosystems.
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