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What does 97 year old Jimmy Carter have to gain from making a stand here? I cannot come up with any motivations besides the guy actually just wants to protect the wild. He grew up close to the land, so that makes sense to me.
He gets to look like he's saving the wilderness while denying advancement in access to medical care to majority native/Asian community.
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Jimmy was a terrible President. He's still a very good man, and I admire him, and would love to have him over for dinner!
In rural Northern California and across the continental USA there are huge, huge areas, including populated places, without local medical services. "medically underserved" is the google keyword. Read two or three public health research papers and you will quickly find that there are already roads, but no doctors, mainly due to the economics of American health care.
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A well connected, wealthy person with no real worries about their own access to medical professionals and no real roots in Alaska feigning to act for the good of nature but in the process acting against the interest of these communities? Say it aint so.
What does 97 year old Jimmy Carter have to gain from making a stand here? I cannot come up with any motivations besides the guy actually just wants to protect the wild. He grew up close to the land, so that makes sense to me.
I can't find a single occurrence of "alaska" in his Wikipedia article. Got any ref?
Edit: I don't mind the downvote, but could someone explain if I missed something obvious?
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We know from history that the destruction of the jungle's began with roads making them accessible to illegal loggers, miners and hunters. The road to hell...
A lot of illegal logging of old growth goes on in Washington State adjacent to the roads.
In rural Northern California and across the continental USA there are huge, huge areas, including populated places, without local medical services. "medically underserved" is the google keyword. Read two or three public health research papers and you will quickly find that there are already roads, but no doctors, mainly due to the economics of American health care.
My parents had a penchant for living remote. Its all fun and games until you need a humvee to crash thru snow to take you to the hospital.
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Why is he a good man?
His work on Habitat for Humanity, for one. It's not virtue signalling for Jimmy, he's out there swinging a hammer alongside everyone else. His work in ensuring fair elections in various countries, for another.
Read Carter's amicus brief https://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/amicus-brief-jim... Carter's argument: Regardless of any facts surrounding the purpose of a road, the 1980 ANILCA did not authorise (Trump's) Secretary of the Interior to review and permit development in refuges on an ad-hoc basis, via section 2192(h)(1) land exchanges. A majority of a three-member panel of the Court of Appeals got it wrong. The C…
These specious environmental lawsuits are why no infrastructure has been built in this country in 40 years. We need to protect the wilds but a regulatory structure that allows vetos of a gravel road to the airport? What the hell.