Crossings

We build roads to connect. Yet what if those roads are quietly unraveling the natural world? In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb guides us through the hidden life of highways, the noise, the salt, the barriers, the death-zones, and shows how the global road network is shaping the planet in ways most of us never stop to consider.

Though we see pavement as progress, the earth beneath and around it tells a different story: animals losing migration paths, ecosystems rewired, invaders hitching rides. Yet there is hope: engineers, ecologists and citizens are building tunnels, overpasses, and new designs that try to let nature breathe again.

This is not just nature writing. It’s a wake-up call: how the infrastructure we take for granted is rewriting “planetary normal”, and how even the humblest crossing can decide who lives, who dies, or whether life thrives.

In this KitUP, you will learn:

- What is the real cost of the road you drive on.

- How many species-lifelines are severed each time we widen a highway.

- Could designing roads for animals instead of cars reshape how we build our world.

- If we start seeing infrastructure as nature’s partner instead of its enemy, what changes then.