Native plant and animal communities have been cut open with new roads and disrupted or destroyed by clearcutting forests and bulldozing land for construction. Animals are presently frightened away by night lighting and crowd noise during their most difficult survival season. Any employment of local people and increase in Nagano business attributable to the Games is temporary. Sufficient jobs in regionally sustainable industries are still lacking. Burdensome taxes incurred by roadbuilding and construction for the Games is inequitably assigned to Nagano residents alone.
Garbage burning is an inappropriate method of disposal even under ordinary conditions.
Usual uses were vastly multiplied. Supplies are diverted for human use from native ecosystems. Increases in unsustainable fossil fuel energy use in. Air pollution by autos. In order to repair damage to human ecology and create a sustainable future for Nagano, we urge shifting the costs of construction to organizers and sponsors of the Games, instituting genuine and thorough recycling programs, developing energy sources that are renewable rather than polluting fossil fuels or dangerous nuclear power, converting all water systems to recycle gray water, and awarding subsidies for new businesses and jobs to create these sustainable alternatives.