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123 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 9h \ 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.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner OP 9h
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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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 8h
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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