Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Geography By Geoff" channel.

  1. HSR won't get as wide as the Interstate System, but it will be a growing transportation option compared to cars, automated or otherwise. The speed of entry and proximity of stations can make it competitive to airlines, and the simple efficiency of rail can make it economical compared to maintaining heavy battery piles, drivetrains, and computer updates.
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  2. People move away from farmlands even though it has all the food. It's because of the economic opportunities that urban centers provide.
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  3. Remote work is horrible on creating durable social connections, and threatens to get you outsourced to much cheaper competition overseas. You're simply more disposable when you're only seen on a screen, and chances are you'll run out of remote-only job offers much sooner than you'd like.
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  4. Fresh-blooded Americans (immigrants) are generally more energetic, educated, and productive than native-born ones who are stale by comparison.
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  5.  @JayMcKinsey  That's granted the automation will work properly and efficiently by then -- remember computing is a massive energy suck and AI even moreso. A steel rail that gets you nearly where you wanted to go anyway is overall much more cost effective, especially when paired with mass transit or shorter-range taxis at both ends.
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  6. Without serious review and tweaking though, AI threatens to simply amplify the existing issues we have more than solving them.
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  7. If you live near an ocean coast, especially the flatland of an island, you'll have noticed. There are entire Pacific and Indian Ocean island nations that could be flooded by saltwater within this lifetime.
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  8. It'd better be, because the Boomer politicians and voting blocks currently holding back the wanted progress should be nearly gone by then.
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  9. Also the 15~25 year lag from the termination of leaded gasoline that those kids had been breathing.
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  10.  @NickCombs  Having the fraction of private property disputes to pay off helps a lot.
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  11. You're way optimistic that space-hogging Americans will continue having families too large for an apartment, and discounting how migrants and immigrants often place a higher priority on time convenience over physical distance.
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  12. It's a global issue, which up until recently the US was the biggest contributor towards. Respect for us going forward hinges on how much we at least try to support solutions to the problems we're imposing on others.
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