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123 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Oct \ on: Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies AI
That's such a stupid headline.
There's an unfathomable amount of Alaska wilderness. For some reason, Alaskans are expected to forego all of the economic development that everyone else in America gets to enjoy.
Alaska's the only state with a significant amount of it's population not connected to each other by road, btw.
I don't know if that's blown out of proportion, maybe, because I haven't seen the deets or the plan. But based on the article, it's gonna affect a ton of ecosystems. Is it worth the trade-off? I can't answer that.
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There will still be fewer roads there than almost anywhere else.
One lightly used seasonal road is not going to destroy a vast ecosystem. If it were going to, then we'd all be dead, because there's way more disruption of almost every other ecosystem on the planet.
The environmental hysterics make the same claim every time anything new is being built up there and they're never right about it. Alaska remains 99.99% pristine wilderness.
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The environmental hysterics make the same claim every time anything new is being built up
True. Same thing happens here, we’ve got lithium and supposedly oil too, but we’ve never managed to make any real money off it. Guess we’re just saving it for when the world runs out! Hahaha.
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Don't let the American military hear that you have oil
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😂 Over the years, people have talked about oil reserves in the Portuguese maritime zone, based on some prospecting studies, but no one's ever really gone ahead with drilling because of complaints from environmentalists and that crowd. Wouldn't be surprised if someone already drilled a pipe just outside Portugal's zone. Hahaha.
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