Sand mining however is not unique to India, from Cambodia to California sand mining has been a rampant practice in resource extraction for decades. Villagers like those in Badhadih are unfortunately not the only peoples to be placed in danger from indiscriminate mining as the foundation of infrastructure, river culverts and ecosystems become so heavily manipulated. 

President Joe Biden set any US president's most ambitious climate objective during his first months in office: to decrease carbon emissions by more than 50% by 2030. With the Arctic warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the world, the Willow Project would constitute a futile misdirection of the climate goals set earlier this month.

Deforestation and forest degradation, their effects on climate change, international agreements, the growth of illegal extractive industries, and the dangers presented to indigenous people are among the many and varied environmental and social issues connected to the road construction of isolated and remote Amazonian regions.