Redolent with the acrid and cloying aroma of accumulated human excrement and rotting fish. It wasn't always like this. Roatan is vastly overpopulated. People, it must be added, who understood little and valued even less, such things as natural beauty and nature's symbiotic imperatives. Development has to do with reordering nature to the physical and operational requirements of people who are seeking profit from their efforts.
Secondary considerations come in for little, if any, consideration during the development stage.
Those niceties may come later, if at all. This is what happened to Roatan. And that entailed the destruction of eons of nature's patient building. Nature is helpless in the face of men and machines. However, Roatan is doing the best it can under the existing situation, and in some of the less-pressured areas, the situation is still not too bad.