Picture this: A friend tells you about this 278 km canal they are planning to build through Nicaragua to connect the Caribbean and the Atlantic ocean. The project will bring a predicted 11% growth to the GDP, but has an estimated loss of 400,000 hectares of rainforest and wetlands, and the contamination of Lake Nicaragua--one of Central America’s biggest reservoirs of freshwater.
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Bon
4/11/2016 05:31:22 pm
Vale, chapeau! You hit it out of the park:
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