The whole 1554 km Tren Maya route crosses 330,540 sq. km of rain forest … yet destroys less than 35 sq. km of these rain forests … which represents 0.011% of the total…
Then realize Yucatan literally has 100,000’s of cenotes –
Putting/Keeping things in perspective:
The train’s route impacts less than 0.011% of our vast rain forests …
Compare the Tren Maya to the highways you drive on.
Our critics should never drive on a road here, because every roadway destroyed rain forests … and crossed over cenotes.
Our critics should never fly in or out of here, because every airport destroyed rain forests … and crossed over cenotes.
Our critics should never eat anything from a grocery store … nor from a restaurant here, because all that food was transported across roads here, because every road destroyed rain forest … and crossed over cenotes –
and the trucks carrying the food our critics eat… pollute heavily … driving global warming that harms everyone.
Our critics are welcome to walk their way to get here to Yucatan … and to grow their own food … or to only eat the food grown by their village, where everyone only walks …
Because the home or apartment you are sitting in, enjoying here, required the destruction of rain forests …
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Seriously, there are some Public Works programs that benefits us in ways that surpass the damage they might cause… The key is to responsibly minimize the damages.
Note the real impact of Tren Maya tracks, compared to the highways … as the Tren Maya is impacting less than 0.01% of our vast rain forests.