Road access? "Road" refers to a last-century tech, ie cars and trucks. Why cut through 🦠-loaded biomes to build roads with GHG-heavy cement / machinery.
Air strips, e-planes, cargo drops, drones wd be a better fit for people and 🌍. The 2019 🇨🇦e-plane already had a 160km range
It lacks the vision of sustainable human life. A result of road access in China and US: producing heavy goods in the road-connected area.
But making heavy goods = a good chunk of the global sustainable 50Gt/a. Plus energy & heavy machinery to make heavy goods = even more material
Studies aren't useful if carried out with the old paradigm in mind that [producing for] high-speed consumption alleviates poverty. To increase carbon sinks and end mass extinction you can't study how to elevate ppl from poverty by the very economic cycle that caused the crisis.
Roads in South Brazil and China have led to forest logging, soy plantation, water scarcity - and in China: to Covid. You can't want to export that to other world regions and hence, you shouldn't waste time on studies to promote the export.
Ask: What do poor people REALLY need?
Don't ask: how do we export our failed system and lack of sustainability?
Ask: what the people you'd want to connect to our (as of now, failed) system really need to make them more resilient to the fallout of our #Econobscene. Also ask if they even want access to our system...!
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